Low-Paid Health Care Workers Join Nationwide Protests
Emboldened by fast-food workers, some of the nation's lowest-paid health care workers are pushing for higher wages, joining protests across the country on Thursday.
The campaign comes amid moves by California and New York to gradually increase their baseline pay to $15 an hour, even as other states move to block such efforts within their borders.
"I've been a home care provider for five years, and after all that time, I have to make impossible choices between rent and food for my three kids," D.C. home care worker Rhina Garabito said in a statement issued by organizers of the Fight for $15 campaign.
The group said tens of thousands of workers took part in the demonstrations in cities including New York, Los Angeles, Boston and Chicago, where protesters reportedly shut down an expressway ramp.
In the nation's capital, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser held a press conference to call for raising wages to $15 an hour before joining a Service Employees International Union 1199 rally.
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