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Rep. Omar Laments Low Pay of McDonald's Employees Who Work ’40 Hours a Day’
[CNSNEWS] Rep. Ilhan OmarSomali- AmericanDem representative from Minnesota. She is apparently married to her brother and may be her own grandmaw... (D.-Minn.) said in a Thursday morning hearing of the House Education and Labor Committee that the Chief Executive Officer of McDonald’s gets paid $21.8 million a year while the median earnings for workers at the restaurant chain "who put in 40 hours a day" is $7000 per year. The hearing was examining the possibility of lifting the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour. On Thursday evening, Omar tweeted out a video clip of her talking at the hearing about McDonald's workers who put in "40 hours a day." Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D.-Mich.) then retweeted Omar’s tweet. Omar made the remark‐which she then Tweeted in the video clip--in an exchange with Terrence Wise, a McDonald's worker from Missouri, who was testifying at the hearing. Posted by: Fred 2019-02-11 |
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