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We’re changing the rules of the game to ensure ALL workers get the dignity and respect they deserve. For too long, rich CEOs and corporations have held all the power. It’s time to hold them accountable. Join the movement now >>
We’re changing the rules of the game to ensure ALL workers get the dignity and respect they deserve. For too long, rich CEOs and corporations have held all the power. It’s time to hold them accountable. Join the movement now >>
1,000s of workers. 100s of cities. 1 movement. $15 and a union.
Four in ten women working in fast food restaurants deal with sexual harassment on the job. Hear their own (graphic and disturbing) words: This has to stop. WE have to stop it. Start by sharing this video far and wide. The more people see it, the more chance we have to stop it. SHARE NOW… Read more →
Today, we’re taking the Fight for $15’s message to the first presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Thousands of workers will march on Hofstra University — the site of the debate — where we’ll make sure that the candidates get it: if they want our vote, they had better come get it by… Read more →
On Monday, Rev. Dr. William Barber II’s Moral Mondays movement teamed up with the Fight for $15 and hit the streets in the capitals of 31 states. Fight for $15 workers joined with faith leaders to call for economic justice for the 64 million workers across the country make less than $15 an hour. Popeyes… Read more →
Last week, #FightFor15 leader and former McDonald’s worker Myrna De los Santos died. She didn’t have to. Myrna couldn’t afford health insurance because of the low pay she got working at McDonald’s and because the state of Missouri didn’t expand Medicaid. Sign the petition to say we won’t accept another tragedy. Stand with Myrna. Myrna… Read more →
The Fight for $15 is joining with Rev. Dr. William Barber II, architect of the #MoralMonday movement, and Repairers of the Breach – to call on our elected leaders to embrace morally just policies like $15 an hour, health care for all, and an end to racism and discrimination. At every event across the nation,… Read more →
You know that the Fight for $15 is winning when even the pro-Business Wall Street Journal is touting the positive impacts of this movement we’ve built over the past 3 years. With wages for the bottom quarter of working people in America “rising at the fastest rate since the recession,” the Wall Street Journal looks… Read more →
On August 13, thousands of low-wage workers from across the country marched on Richmond, VA, the former capitol of the Confederacy, to fight for racial and economic justice at the first-ever Fight for $15 National Convention. Rev. Dr. William Barber II, founding member of Repairers of the Breach and architect of the Moral Monday movement,… Read more →
This weekend we showed the world how we #FightFor15 at our first-ever convention and march on Richmond. We came from across the nation: We came from every walk of life in America. From home care workers to fast-food cooks, child care workers to airport baggage handlers, university faculty and thousands more. We marched on the… Read more →
What a historic weekend. The march is winding down, but this movement is just getting started. Today and yesterday, thousands and thousands of workers came together to talk about what type of world they want to live in, and supported each other in planning for how they’ll make that vision a reality. We met and… Read more →
This is the #FightFor15 — workers coming together, standing strong, and showing their bosses and the world’s biggest corporations that we won’t be ignored any more. This morning hundreds of workers are striking and protesting at a McDonald’s right here in Richmond, VA. McDonald’s and the fast food giants cannot ignore us — It’s time… Read more →