Daycare workers used the children in their care to demand Chicago’s minimum wage be hiked to $15 per hour Tuesday at a demonstration in the city’s Loop.

“Workers need to be paid $15 in order to pay all their bills and provide for their families,” Tosha Kelly-Rushton, the teacher told her students sitting on downtown Daley Plaza’s sidewalk.

“Now our parents make only $8.25 and hour, and we don’t want that do we?” she said. “No!!” the kids replied.

Chicago’s minimum wage is to go up to $10 an hour on July 1st, but that’s not enough, she said. “The $10 per hour doesn’t take us above the poverty line, does it?” “No!!” the kids said.

“With $15 an hour, we can pay for a place to live, transportation, housing, food, gas and electricity,” Kelly-Rushton said.

“What do we need?” she asked. “15!” the kids shouted back. “When do we need it?” The kids answered, “Now!”

The video was shot and posted on YouTube by the SEIU-Illinois- funded Progress Illinois.