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In 2012, fast food workers in NYC kicked off a movement that has exceeded all expectations, and changed the conversation about the minimum wage.
On this edition, low paid workers tell the story of the fight for 15, the exploding nationwide movement for fair wages.
Featuring:
- Alvin Major, KFC employee and original NYC striker
- Richard Wilson, Walmart employee
- Bernardo Monteo, Chanda Roberts, Jayla Mosley; fast food workers
- Mary Kay Henry, SEIU President
- Ken Jacobs, chair of the UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education
- Thomas Geoghegan, author of “Only One Thing Can Save Us: Why America Needs A New Kind of Labor Movement“
More information
- Fight for 15
- Fast Food Forward
- Clocking In
- Only One Thing Can Save Us: Why America Needs A New Kind of Labor Movement“ by Thomas Geoghegan
- States Move to Roll Back City Minimum-Wage Raises
- Living Wage Mandate Preemption Act
- Summer For Respect on Soundcloud
- Voices of Walmart
- California’s $15 Minimum Wage Initiative Is Likely Headed to Voters
- Columbia University Interdisciplinary Center for Innovative Theory and Empirics (INCITE)
- 14 Cities States Approved 15 Minimum Wage in 2015
- How New York’s “Fight for $15” Launched a National Movement
- The Care Gap
- Income Inequality Is A Health Hazard
- Why Skills Are Not Enough to Land a Job
- Last word: the Faces of $15