Fonda and Tomlin speak out on fair wages for restaurant workers
Actresses Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda partnered are in Michigan with restaurant worker advocacy groups to promote a ballot initiative raising the minimum wage in Michigan.
Advocates are raising money and collecting signatures to get the measure, which would raise the state's minimum wage gradually to $12 an hour by 2022, on the 2018 ballot.
Speaking at Ann Arbor's Power Center, Detroit native Tomlin said she worked as a waitress for years to help support her family.
"How do restaurant owners take for granted their workers' wages will be subsidized by the diners' tips, and I dare say their taxes, because they have to get public assistance of all kinds?" Tomlin asked.
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