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Nearly a million workers left food service in the last two years, fed up with the pay, hours, and working conditions. Advocates want to overhaul the whole system. Restaurant owners are listening – they have no choice.
Activists say they are not just talking about restaurant workers, waitresses, and nail techs - but home health care workers and hundreds of thousands of people.
A legislative initiative years in the making could find tipped food workers pay increasing from $6.15 per hour to $14.25 per hour.
In the thick of the pandemic, workers were left to fend for themselves. Now they've learned how to demand more from their employers.
City Comptroller Brad Lander threw his support behind workers demonstrating outside a hotel on Thursday.