Bernie Sanders turns his minimum wage into McDonalds

Now that Amazon has agreed to raise the minimum wage and pay $ 15 an hour to workers, Senator Bernie Sanders is turning his crusade into a living wage: another target: McDonald's.

The Vermont senator sent Thursday a letter to McDonald's chief executive, Steve Easterbrook, urging the fast food chain to pay his workers a minimum of $ 15 an hour.

"As you probably know, Amazon, Whole Foods and Walt Disney Co. recently increased the minimum wage of their employees to $ 15 an hour. I respectfully ask you, as CEO of one of the largest fast-food chains in the world, to do the same, "wrote Sanders in his letter. sharing on Twitter.

"If McDonald's raised the minimum wage to $ 15 an hour and respected the constitutional right of your workers to form a union, it would set the example for the whole fast food sector," the letter said.

In August, Sanders began asking Amazon to pay the salaries paid to storekeepers, highlighting the contrast between the wealth of CEO Jeff Bezos, recently becoming the richest man in modern history, and the need many Amazon workers to seek help through the intermediary of food vouchers. . Amazon responded by calling Sanders' claims "inaccurate and misleading".

Last month, Sanders stepped up its efforts by introducing the "Stop BEZOS Act," a law that would require large, profitable corporations like Amazon to pay 100% of the tax on any federal assistance their employees receive through good credit. 39, diet, Medicaid and social housing. Sanders also blatantly accused Disney of failing to pay his theme park employees what he saw as a living wage.

As a result of these pressures, Amazon and Disney have agreed to pay many of their workers a minimum wage of $ 15 per hour. Target has also agreed to introduce a minimum hourly wage of $ 15 by 2020. Amazon's move has been somewhat controversial as it also removes monthly premiums and stock option grants. , which could cancel the salary increase of some of its workers.

Sanders tweeted his letter to McDonald's during the Wednesday afternoon trading session, dropping McDonald's stock to 0.6% to $ 164.69. At the end of the day, the stock had resumed and closed up 0.7% to $ 165.80 the stock. Sanders' style, however, must be persistent. Now that McDonald's is in sight, it is unlikely that the senator will give up immediately.