BREAKING: The Connecticut House of Representatives just passed a bill to raise the state’s minimum wage to $15 an hour!

After years of relentless organizing by workers and allies, Connecticut is now one step closer to becoming the seventh state to raise the minimum wage to $15. The passage of this bill would put an additional $1.2 billion a year into the pockets of Connecticut’s lowest paid workers, and be a huge victory for hundreds of thousands of people in one of the most economically unequal states in the nation.

As Richard Grimes, a Burger King worker and Fight for $15 leader said:

“Workers across Connecticut like me are celebrating the historic passage of the $15 bill in the Connecticut House today, and we encourage the State Senate to follow suit as soon as possible. Working families should not have to couch surf, live in a car, in a homeless shelter, or under a bridge, as I and many of the workers I know have been forced to do. We should be able to pay rent and have a meal without thinking, ‘should I save this money for the gas bill?”

State by state, our momentum is building and we’re not done yet!

Read and share to stand with our fellow workers in Connecticut in the Fight for $15 and a Union!