The Fight For $15
The Fight For $15
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Courtesy of David Rolf “Power is the end game.” Lessons from the Fight for $15.
David Rolf looks back on the last decade of organizing for a $15 minimum wage and wrestles with what it will take for the next labor upsurge to win.
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Damon Bowe Tipped Workers and the Fight for $15
Mat Hanson talks with Nikki Cole about why tipped workers must be a central part of the effort to raise the minimum wage.
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Getty Images One Fair Wage Is the New Era of the Restaurant Industry
As cities and states start relaxing COVID restrictions and mask mandates, tipped workers have reported a substantial decline in tips, a disturbing increase in sexual harassment, and an overwhelming responsibility to protect public health. We can’t go back to the old normal.
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More Popular Than Trump and Biden. How $15 Won in Florida
Kofi Hunt talks about what it took to build a coalition that delivered real change for working families in Florida.
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How Workers Won the Fight for $15 in Florida.
Starbucks worker and member organizer Sammy Conde spoke with Mat Hanson about their role in the successful Fight for $15 in Florida — and how they shifted gears to build power during the pandemic.
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Courtesy of Adriana Rivera Give The People Something to Vote For
How the Florida Immigrant Coalition got out the vote to help win the Fight for $15.
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A McJobs Economy
An excerpt from Poor Workers' Unions
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Getty Images The Fight for $15: Past, Present, and Future
In the months and years ahead, the movement must continue pressing for a federal minimum wage increase for all workers — and for legislation that will make it easier to build fighting unions to empower workers in the long term.
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The All-Nite Images https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en The Fight for $15
Unprecedented organizing has helped build worker power and raise wages for millions of workers over the past decade. What can we learn from the Fight for $15, and what is still left to be done?
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Images courtesy of Keith Kelleher Fast Food Fight
The early fight to organize Detroit’s fast food workers
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The Origins of Fight for 15 in Chicago
This is the story of the workers and organizers in Chicago — most of them women — whose efforts to build an organization of downtown workers helped to spark the national and global Fight for 15 movement.