Low-wage workers protest across the city for higher pay
By Stefano Esposito and Alice Keefe
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Later Thursday, the group of protesters grew to about 100 people. They gathered outside Elite Staffing at 1400 W. Hubbard St. to protest the company’s relationship with Pactiv LLC and McDonald’s.
Pactiv is a major McDonald’s supplier and creates their McCafe coffee cups.
Protesters entered the building and tried to give a letter the company’s head of operations, but no one answered the door.
Dominique Bouie, a 27-year-old Joliet woman, has worked at the Pactiv factory in Romeoville. She criticized the company for failing to give workers breaks and poor working conditions.
“I hope we win this thing,” Bouie said, because at the end of the day, “we just want to take care of our families.”