Major unions and civil rights groups said they will stage a nationwide walk out later this month.
The union is joining with more than a dozen other groups including the United Farm Workers, the Fight for $15, the Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, and the Movement for Black Lives.
Other actions will follow. Workers in Ferguson, Missouri will march to a memorial for Michael Brown, a Black teenager killed by police in 2014. Fast food and nursing home employees will gather to protest their lack of workplace protections as they work amid the coronavirus pandemic. “Companies like McDonald’s cannot on the one hand tweet that ‘Black Lives Matter’ and on the other pay us poverty wages and fail to provide sick days and adequate'' safety equipment, Angely Rodriguez Lambert, a McDonald's worker in Oakland, California said in the statement. “We're going on strike because McDonald's and other fast-food companies have failed to protect us in a pandemic that has ravaged Black and brown communities across the country.
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