Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez returned to Queens on Friday for a photo-op to promote a $15 an hour minimum wage for all employees, including restaurant workers who get tips:
.@AOC calls for federal $15 dollar an hour minimum wage regardless if they’re tipped workers or not.
— Gwynne Hogan (@GwynneFitz) May 31, 2019
And for some reason, she needed to bartend and wait tables to make the point:
.@AOC: "As a person who actually worked for tips & hourly wages in my life, instead of having to learn about it 2nd-hand, I can tell you that most people want to be paid enough to live."
She's back in Queens with us today to wait tables and raise awareness for #1FairWage
— ROC United (@rocunited) May 31, 2019
She actually walked around the bar taking orders:
She’s now going around the restaurant, pen and pad in hand taking orders.
— Gloria Pazmino (@GloriaPazmino) May 31, 2019
Server for an hour with @AOC!
She knows that #1FairWage is the way to go. ✊✊ pic.twitter.com/X3csQfqPJY
— ROC United (@rocunited) May 31, 2019
Here’s @AOC who is ready to jump behind the bar this evening to call attention to the tipped worker minimum wage: pic.twitter.com/zK6sl6fEFM
— Gloria Pazmino (@GloriaPazmino) May 31, 2019
And then she whipped up a few cocktails for her supporters:
Shortly after this she shook a cocktail and the restaurant erupted in applause. pic.twitter.com/98h5G9Hu14
— Gwynne Hogan (@GwynneFitz) May 31, 2019
Future tweet: “AOC proposes job training for bartenders laid off after the $15/hour minimum wage for tipped employees goes into effect.” Maybe they can learn to code robot bartenders?
A robot bartender? Yes, please. ?@JasmynTV @TheFIA @CHRISJCARPENTE1 pic.twitter.com/nQ9FiKIfpz
— Rachelle Spence (@RSpenceTV) May 30, 2019
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