Today is April 15, also known as “4-15.”
In 300 cities in 40 countries today fast food workers are driving home the point that “McJobscost us all.” Pennsylvania workers in multiple service industries are now very active in the Fight for $15.
For example, nearly 5,00 nursing home workers at 42 nursing facilities in Pennsylvania recently achieved contracts that lift their wages to $15 per hour over time. KRC reports released two days before “4-15” in 2015 and on November 9 made the case for this increase.
Just a couple of weeks ago, UPMC in Pittsburgh announced it will increase wages to $15 per hour as noted in this KRC statement and this Pittsburgh Post-Gazette column quoting KRC.
Airport workers in Philadelphia, fast-food workers, security guards and janitors have also been active and achieving victories in the Pennsylvania Fight for $15…with organizing efforts building in home care and child care.
Check out this graphic (also copied below) from the Center for American Progress, which explains how important the “and a union” part of the phrase “Fight for $15 and a union is.” You see, $15 per hour in the near term would be a massive gain that drastically expands the number of living-wage jobs. But “and a union” — unions that once again represent at least 35% of the workforce anchored service industries that can’t relocate — would make tens of millions of McJobs part of the middle class permanently.
Hats off to the Fight for $15 workers in Pennsylvania and across the country for helping to save America from itself and lighting the fire that eliminate the scourge of inequality from our job market, or political system, our communities, and our schools.
Today is April 15, also known as “4-15.”
In 300 cities in 40 countries today fast food workers are driving home the point that “McJobscost us all.” Pennsylvania workers in multiple service industries are now very active in the Fight for $15.
For example, nearly 5,00 nursing home workers at 42 nursing facilities in Pennsylvania recently achieved contracts that lift their wages to $15 per hour over time. KRC reports released two days before “4-15” in 2015 and on November 9 made the case for this increase.
Just a couple of weeks ago, UPMC in Pittsburgh announced it will increase wages to $15 per hour as noted in this KRC statement and this Pittsburgh Post-Gazette column quoting KRC.
Airport workers in Philadelphia, fast-food workers, security guards and janitors have also been active and achieving victories in the Pennsylvania Fight for $15…with organizing efforts building in home care and child care.
Check out this graphic (also copied below) from the Center for American Progress, which explains how important the “and a union” part of the phrase “Fight for $15 and a union is.” You see, $15 per hour in the near term would be a massive gain that drastically expands the number of living-wage jobs. But “and a union” — unions that once again represent at least 35% of the workforce anchored service industries that can’t relocate — would make tens of millions of McJobs part of the middle class permanently.
Hats off to the Fight for $15 workers in Pennsylvania and across the country for helping to save America from itself and lighting the fire that eliminate the scourge of inequality from our job market, or political system, our communities, and our schools.
