Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report
National Edition
Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
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‘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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