Boston-area fast-food workers and their supporters demonstrated outside a McDonald's yesterday, a day after the company announced it was giving workers at restaurants it owns a pay raise — a move protesters said was a publicity stunt that would only help about 10 percent of its employees.
Passing drivers honked their horns in support as about 50 people gathered outside a McDonald's on Massachusetts Avenue, vowing to keep up pressure on the company to raise wages for all employees to at least $15 an hour and acknowledge their right to unionize.
"I shouldn't have to struggle just to survive," said Darius Cephas, 23, who has been working at a Dorchester McDonald's for 2 1⁄2 years and makes $9.25 an hour.
Beginning July 1, employees at about 1,500 restaurants McDonald's owns in the U.S. will be paid at least $1 an hour more than the local minimum wage, and those who have worked for the company a year or more can accrue paid time off. But those changes won't apply to employees of McDonald's franchisees, the bulk of the company's more than 14,300 locations, who set wages for their own employees.
"This is an important and meaningful first step as we continue to look at opportunities that will make a difference for employees," McDonald's said in a statement yesterday.
But one of the protesters, state Sen. Daniel A. Wolf (D-Harwich), who has filed legislation that would raise the minimum wage from $9 to $15 an hour for workers at fast-food restaurants and big box retailers, said when companies such as McDonald's and Wal-Mart refuse to pay their workers a living wage, forcing them to turn to public assistance, taxpayers end up footing the bill.
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