America Rising’s video trackers were out in force for the “Fight for $15” protests across the country last week, and the video they captured continues to show the truth about this big labor-funded “movement.” Indeed, tracker video of an Austin, Texas Taco Bell employee telling protesters to get out of her store because she has to do her job went viral last week, and there’s more video still coming in from across America.
AR2 wanted to get a better idea of who these protesters actually are and if they know about the hundreds of thousands of dollars their union presidents make, so we asked them questions at Thursday’s protests, producing some revealing responses.
First, in this tracker video from a “Fight for $15” protest against a McDonald’s in Cleveland, Ohio, protesters confirm they actually work for SEIU – not the McDonald’s they’re demonstrating in front of – and they refuse to answer how much their union president makes:
For the record, SEIU President Mary Kay Henry makes $296,549 per year, according to the union’s latest financial disclosure, and the lead national organizer for the “Fight for $15” campaign, Kendall Fells, is paid $150,214 per year by SEIU. That’s a long way from $15 bucks an hour.
In a second tracker video from a “Fight for $15” protest of a McDonald’s in Florida, a protester can’t answer how much SEIU’s president makes:
These tracker videos help tell the real story about the the “Fight for $15” campaign’s “Day of Action” last week: Big labor-funded protests manned by union members who don’t even work at the fast food establishments they claim to speak for.