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Yes, $15 an Hour

Photo by Cathy Sherwin.

To many people, it is almost obscene that the CEO of McDonald’s, for instance, gets a compensation  package worth $13.8 million a year; a giant raise from his 2011 pay of $4.1 million , a pay level that equals 915 full-time, full-year minimum wage workers at McDonald’s. If pay truly reflected the productivity of workers, then presumably if 915 McDonald’s workers went on strike, he would be able to fill in and do their work.

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