“Fight for $15” and “Unionize” resonated in 300 cities around the U.S., chanted by workers marching on Sept. 4, Labor Day. Thousands of low-paid fast food and other workers, many of them African American, Latinx and immigrants, demanded a $15 hourly minimum wage so they could better care for their families. McDonald’s workers struck in several cities, joined by union members and other allies; they called for not only better pay and working conditions, but the right to organize unions to defend their rights.
In Philadelphia, Fight for $15 PA, Service Employees Union 32BJ and other unions representing fast food, home care, airport and retail workers and immigrants, joined by community activists, rallied and marched around a South Philadelphia McDonald’s restaurant. They demanded a raise in the minimum wage to $15 an hour from Pennsylvania’s $7.25 hourly wage. A contingent of immigrant workers energized the rally with chants of “Lucha por $15 y DACA” (“Struggle for $15 and DACA”); their signs had the same slogan.
By Andrew Johnson An anti-imperialist Palestine Congress “against German complicity in the genocide in Gaza”…
The following article first appeared on the Resistance News Network, April 22. In two days,…
May Day is a day of solidarity with workers everywhere. This year’s priority is to…
Houston The prosecution, the defense and the judge all agree now that evidence hidden by…
The Supreme Court of the United States is set to begin hearings in April on…
Since October 7, the New York Times has had no trouble filling its pages with…