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Low-Wage Federal Contract Workers to Strike Today

Jackie Tortora | Political Action/Legislation

Photo via Ad Meskens, Wikimedia images.

Delano Wingfield makes $9 an hour working in the Union Station food court in Washington, D.C. And it's really hard to get by. 

“Right now, it’s actually like really tight…” Wingfield told  Salon's Josh Eidelson . “Most of my money is on bills and rent.”

Wingfield and other cleaning and concessions workers plan to walk off their jobs in federal buildings Wednesday, Eidelson reports, and march on the White House, demanding fair wages and better working conditions. 

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