Fast Food Worker To US Labor Secretary: ‘Either I Feed Myself Or I Feed My Son’

by onepercenttakers · Published August 21, 2014 · Updated August 21, 2014

Meet Carlton, one of six service workers gathered at 71-year-old Austraberta Rodriguez's home in Houston, Texas for breakfast with U.S. Labor Secretary Tom Perez. The U.S. Department of Labor reports Perez is touring the U.S. in the weeks leading up to Labor Day to connect with workers, and promote policies to help improve their lives.These workers' heart-wrenching stories should convince even the most callous of conservatives that we can't continue supporting Corporate America's quest to create a disposable labor force of impoverished wage slaves with no hope and no future.
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Meet Carlton, one of six service workers gathered at 71-year-old Austraberta Rodriguez’s home in Houston, Texas for breakfast with U.S. Labor Secretary Tom Perez. The U.S. Department of Labor reports Perez is touring the U.S. in the weeks leading up to Labor Day to connect with workers, and promote policies to help improve their lives.These workers’ heart-wrenching stories should convince even the most callous of conservatives that we can’t continue supporting Corporate America’s quest to create a disposable labor force of impoverished wage slaves with no hope and no future.