Late last week, the far-left New York Times editorial board penned a propaganda piece designed to attack McDonalds, using the same talking points that the big labor funded “Fight for $15” campaign use.

Instead of facing the realities that a $15 minimum wage would devastate private sector companies across the country, forcing them to eliminate jobs and slash hours, The New York Times was forced to do the unions bidding for them, and advocate on behalf of their extremist agenda.

While big labor groups have spent millions of dollars on the “Fight for $15” campaign, they aren’t spending this money to help workers or raise their incomes. They are spending this money because they intend to increase their membership rolls and advocate for more left-wing policies that are good for them, but bad for Americans across the board.

Since the millions of dollars they have spent have not generated much in the terms of results, it’s no surprise that big labor would turn to their number one ally, The New York Times editorial board, in order to try and make the case that unions seemingly can’t make on their own.

Rather than reading into baseless attacks for the agenda-driven New York Times, it’s far more important to focus on the facts of this debate and how the minimum wage would crush the very workers it’s designed to help.