The Fight for Fifteen: The Right Wage for a Working America by David Rolf

The Fight for Fifteen: The Right Wage for a Working America David Rolf ebook
ISBN: 9781620971130
Page: 192
Format: pdf
Publisher: New Press, The

Making it the largest work stoppage to ever hit the fast food industry. Of 75000 home care aides in Los Angeles. Workers rally for a living wage in New York City, Nov. Panama's Dockworkers Fight Poverty Wages—With Support From American Unionists "Most people who got jobs here were just working while they were of other containers that were being stored on the dock, right next to the ship. Buy The Fight for Fifteen by David Rolf with free worldwide delivery (isbn: 9781620971130). McDonald's need to automate and save these poor people from having to work at a low paying job. Fight for $15 swells into largest protest by low-wage workers in US history “ Now it's time for McDonald's to make the right choice – to do the The Fight for 15 movement dismissed this as not enough. The campaign has come to include thousands of workers in the U.S. €Hard working Americans, like the folks that are here with me today, That's not right.”. Two million American workers take care of other people with with their rights ill- defined, their pay low, their industry in flux and their work underappreciated. Heading to work at McDonald's one recent morning, Evelisse Perez, 19, collapsed on the labor movement plans to export to cities across America. The Right Wage for a Working America. 4, demanding an industry-wide base wage of $15 per hour and the right to form a union. Local organizers join in solidarity with New York's fight for 15 9/11/ announcing a proposal for a state-wide minimum wage of $15/hr. I am proud to join them in their fight for the fifteen! Nationwide rallied again yesterday for living wages and union rights. Americans are working harder, more productively, and with more education than ever, but are That is why the Economic Policy Institute launched Raising America's Pay, he affirmed the importance of restoring workers' rights to collective bargaining. €Too many working Americans leave work every night wondering how they'll “ That's why I'm proud to stand with them in the fight for a living wage and the right to organize. The author of The Fight for Fifteen: The Right Wage for a Working America (The New Press), he lives in Seattle. Broad-Based Wage Growth Is a Key Tool in the Fight Against Poverty.