Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez goes back to work as a bartender – for a day
New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez engaged in a little bit of political theater on Friday as she returned to work at a bar in Jackson Heights, Queens. The appearance was part of a bid to draw attention to increasing the minimum wage to $15 per hour across the whole country.
"I was nervous that I may have lost my touch -- still got it!" Ocasio-Cortez tweeted."That muscle memory doesn’t quit.""The federal tipped minimum wage is $2.13 an hour. That is unacceptable," Ocasio-Cortez grabbed a mic and told patrons."Any job that pays $2.13 an hour is not a job. It's indentured servitude.
The federally tipped minimum wage refers to the salary workers who receive tips must be paid. Those workers include servers and bartenders.
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