The workers received support from several elected city leaders, including Chicago Ald. Jeanette B. Taylor.
“People sitting around here are uncomfortable,” she said. “You’ll continue to be uncomfortable until the people that serve you get a living wage.”
According to the group One Fair Wage, 53% of workers in a recent survey say they are considering leaving their restaurant jobs, with the overwhelming majority, 75%, of those workers citing low wages and tips.
The group says 44% of those workers surveyed had concerns about COVID-19 safety, and 35% cited hostility and harassment from customers.
Ald. Carlos Ramirez-Rosa, who also joined in the gathering, echoed those concerns in remarks to assembled workers.
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Happy Monday, Illinois. That Food and Wine magazine would rank New Jersey s pizza No. 1 is a complete abomination.
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Rep. Cheri Bustos’
surprise announcement Friday that she won’t seek re-election in 2022 further endangers Democrats’ chances of holding on to the House, and it creates new intrigue into how Illinois lawmakers will redraw congressional maps.
Now in her fifth term in Congress, Bustos is a close friend and ally of House Speaker
Nancy Pelosi. The two are known to talk almost every day. So that, coupled with news that Illinois will lose one of its 18 seats in the House, chips away at Illinois clout.