Elected Officials Arrested at Fight for $15 Rally

 

By Addy Baird 

Four local and state officials were arrested in Manhattan for disorderly conduct Tuesday morning at a rally calling for a national $15 minimum wage.

The rally began at 6 a.m. on Tuesday, as several hundred fast food workers, Uber and taxi drivers, and union members marched from Zuccotti Park to a nearby McDonald’s as part of the National Day of Action for the Fight for $15.

City Council Members Mark Levine, Antonio Reynoso, and Brad Lander, along with State Assemblymember Francisco Moya and a small group of the protesters, were arrested around 7 a.m. after sitting in the street and refusing to leave.

New York passed a $15 minimum wage earlier this year (with different timelines and formulas for different areas of the state), and the group gathered at the rally cheered the steps New York has taken and called for a national $15 minimum wage. 

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Source: Politico (via The Empire Report)