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In a new video, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) claims that McDonald’s Corporation withheld information about its plan to raise wages to $15 an hour, even though it didn’t – and she demands that the company do something that it has no power to do.
On Wednesday, Ocasio-Cortez shared a video in which she claims that McDonald’s “didn’t say” the wage hike “was only for their corporate locations, which only covers about five percent” of McDonald’s stores:
“McDonald’s recently announced that they were going to be raising their minimum wage, quote-unquote, to $15 an hour.
“But, what they didn’t say is that it was only for their corporate locations, which only covers about five percent – five percent – of all of the McDonald’s across this country. Ninety-five percent of the McDonald’s locations are franchises.
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By Craig Bannister | March 12, 2021 | 11:22am EST
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On Friday, Democrat New York Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Jamal Bowman released a statement saying that they now have enough reason to call for Democrat New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to resign.
Ocasio-Cortez tweeted the text of the statement, in a post saying that she now considers the list of allegations against Cuomo simply too long for him to remain in office:
“After two accounts of sexual assault, four accounts of harassment, the Attorney General’s investigation finding the Governor’s admin hid nursing home data from the legislature & public, we agree with the 55+ members of the New York State legislature that the Governor must resign.”
On Tuesday, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said that, since McDonald’s workers in Denmark make $22 an hour, the U.S. should raise its national minimum wage – prompting critics to point out that Denmark does not have a minimum wage law.