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CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Several workers were rallying outside Cleveland City Hall Thursday to demand a $15 minimum wage available in states like New York and California.

Organizers say the demonstration involved workers in the fast food industry, nursing homes, hospitals and airports.

The "Raise up Cleveland" campaign is also filing an initiative petition with the clerk of council.

The petition reads:

"Beginning January 1, 2017, every covered employer shall pay each of its employees working within the geographical boundaries of the City of Cleveland at a wage rate of not less than $15.00 per hour. Beginning January 1, 2018, the minimum wage rate provided in this Chapter shall be increased by the rate of inflation for the twelve month period prior to the September preceding the required increase according to the consumer price index or its successor index for all urban wage earners and clerical workers for all items as calculated by the federal government rounded to the nearest five cents.”

It will need 5,000 signatures for city council to consider it.

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