MIAMI (CBSMiami) – Domestic employees packed the streets to talk out towards rising prices and low pay now impacting their lives.
“We are here saying that throughout this pandemic, workers have been on the front lines, they’ve been exposed, and they deserve increase wages, and they deserve respect and dignity in the work that they do,” mentioned Sandra Dennis with Miami Worker Center.
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Miami Worker Center is one among a number of nonprofits that rallied and marched via downtown Miami Sunday to battle for these being priced of the world.
“Florida is the most expensive place to live in the nation, yet we have the hospitality industry not even paying people the minimum wage of $10. Our workers can’t even afford to live in South Florida,” added Dennis.
In addition to demanding a dwelling wage, the protesters included development and farm employees who say the circumstances they’re being subjected to are unacceptable.
“We know that we are entering some of the hottest months of the year, and the people make who our food, the people who make our plants, who build our city, they don’t have basic lifesaving protections, whether it’s water, whether shade, whether it’s rest,” mentioned Oscar Londoño, with We Count, a neighborhood union.
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But the home employees of South Florida weren’t the one ones taking to the streets. All throughout the nation, employees protested in honor of International Workers Day. All demanding the identical factor: dwelling wages in addition to protections from the housing disaster and labor discrimination.
“The majority of Miami is relying on service workers and domestic workers and a lot of us do not have the money to pay these rent hicks,” mentioned protester Nicky Parez.
“The average person is not making enough to be able to sustain the insurance, housing, a decent living,” echoed one other protester, Keisha Guyton.
And teams say even when the protest is over they are going to proceed to battle.
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“We want corporations to know that workers make all things possible. There would not be the billions without workers, and workers have something to say. Without the workers, the company and corporations would not have made the billions that they have made. Workers too deserve to live in Miami, workers deserve to be able to take a day off when they’re sick,” mentioned Dennis.
