Workers in US south call for higher minimum wage and end to automatic meal deduction charges from paychecks in petition
Workers at several Waffle House locations in the southern US are among the latest group of employees in the US to hold walkouts around a slate of demands for improvements to wages and working conditions.
A petition circulating by the Union of Southern Service Workers, a worker organization supported by the Service Employees International Union, includes a push for a $25 hourly minimum wage at the huge restaurant chain that is often seen as an icon of working-class Americana.
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