DENVER (AP) - The Latest on a demonstration at Denver International Airport in support of service workers (all times local):
2:40 p.m.
Fast food and home health care workers and their supporters demonstrated at Denver International Airport on Tuesday as part of a nationwide day of protests to push for higher wages and union rights.
About 200 people handed out fliers to passengers in the airport’s terminal asking them to support airport workers.
It’s part of a campaign by the Service Employees International Union to reach out to workers working for airport contractors like wheelchair attendants. They say they are struggling to get by on about $5 an hour.
The protest started before sunrise at a Denver McDonald’s. The union says about 100 people, including about 60 striking fast food workers from around the metro area, picketed but weren’t able to enter the store as they’ve done previously because the doors were locked.
No one was arrested.
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11:20 a.m.
Fast food and home health care workers and their supporters plan to demonstrate at Denver International Airport on Tuesday as part of a nationwide day of protests to push for higher wages and union rights.
Their protest started before sunrise at a Denver McDonald’s. The Service Employees International Union Local 105 says about 100 people, including about 60 striking fast food workers from around the metro area, picketed but weren’t able to enter the store as they’ve done previously because the doors were locked.
They plan to head to DIA to hand out fliers to both passengers and airport service workers whom they say aren’t being paid enough either.
Union spokeswoman Maria Corral say they want to get their message out but they don’t want disrupt anyone’s travel plans.
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