Building Bridges: Nationwide Strike - $15 & Union - 28:26
‘We Won’t Back Down’ says The Fight for $15,
Strike
Nationwide!
featuring
. Isaias Sapon,
McDonald's worker, Texas
. Rob Hill, VP and Organizing Director of
32BJ
As
newly-elected politicians and newly-empowered corporate special interests
threaten an extremist agenda to move the country to the right, working
Americans announced that their four-year-old Fight for $15 will not back
down and that any efforts to block wage increases, gut workers’ rights or
healthcare, deport immigrants, or support racism or racist policies, will be
met with unrelenting opposition. To show their determination in the face of
the seismic shifts in the political climate, workers in the Fight for $15
waged their most disruptive protests yet, expanding their movement
to nearly
20 airports serving 2 million passengers a day, and risking arrest via mass
civil disobedience in front of McDonald’s restaurants from Detroit to
Denver. Workers spanning the economy—including baggage handlers, fast-food
cooks, home care workers, child care teachers and graduate assistants—
demand $15 and union rights, no deportations, an end to the police killings
of black people, and politicians keep their hands off Americans’ health care
coverage.
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