'I think we should welcome automation,' SEIU president Mary Kay Henry told Business Insider.
Joe Raedle/Getty Imageshas gone from a pipe dream to the law of the land in New York and California over the last seven years, with the backing of the Service Employees International Union.
"My imagination and my dreaming in support of those New York fast-food workers who had the courage to do this was not a widely held belief," Mary Kay Henry, the president of Service Employees International Union, recently told Business Insider. "It wasn't a decision we made," Henry said."Fast-food workers responded to our community organizing in a way that captured people's imagination."
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