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‘You will hear us today’: McDonald’s workers strike to protest sexual harassment

September 21, 2018 / PSU-AAUP

The Washington Post

By Antonia Noori Farzan

September 19, 2018

A little before noon on Tuesday, protesters stood silently on a Chicago street, blue duct tape covering their mouths. Then, linking arms, they began to slowly walk forward.

An activist with Fight for $15, a group that advocates raising the minimum wage, was filming the march and explained that the protesters were headed to McDonald’s Hamburger University, where the fast-food company trains managers. When the marchers got there, the tape came off their mouths, and the chants began.

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