r/FightFor15 • u/WorkplaceOrganizing • Oct 15 '21

What Does the “Labor Shortage” Mean for Working People?

workerorganizing.org

8 Upvotes

0 comments

r/FightFor15 • u/WorkplaceOrganizing • Oct 13 '21

Going on Strike: The Biggest Trend of 2021

workerorganizing.org

12 Upvotes

0 comments

r/FightFor15 • u/snooshoe • Sep 03 '21

McDonald's and Burger King locations hiring 14-year-olds amid dire labor shortage

dailymail.co.uk

7 Upvotes

1 comment

r/FightFor15 • u/StellarTabi • Aug 27 '21

We don't have a shortage of workers, we have a shortage of wages.

21 Upvotes

1 comment

r/FightFor15 • u/snooshoe • Aug 26 '21

'Solving' The Labor Shortage In America

9 Upvotes

0 comments

r/FightFor15 • u/StellarTabi • Jun 19 '21

How is this possible!?

14 Upvotes

1 comment

r/FightFor15 • u/UCantKneebah • Jun 12 '21

Self-Checked Out — Automation Isn't the Problem. Capitalism Is.

joewrote.substack.com

7 Upvotes

6 comments

r/FightFor15 • u/civicmemes • May 27 '21

Come Closer (OC)

16 Upvotes

0 comments

r/FightFor15 • u/snooshoe • Apr 27 '21

Biden raises minimum wage for federal contracts to $15 an hour

nypost.com

14 Upvotes

0 comments

r/FightFor15 • u/commieotter • Apr 18 '21

I've noticed a lot of managers complaining that nobody wants to work. Reply to them with this.

19 Upvotes

3 comments

r/FightFor15 • u/[deleted] • Apr 14 '21

I had to go to school to have the job that I have. It pays about 18 an hr. My job involves ALOT of critical thinking and intense situations. It can be live and death at times. I am curious to why a non skilled entry level job like working at Walmart, target, mcds, etc deserves 15 an hr. I can't understand the logic behind thisfightfor15. I had to sacrifice alot while I went to school and earn my degree to have this job while others want to make almost what I make for a non skilled entry level job. Please help me understand. I would also like to add that I feel minimum wage should be state based not federally based.

6 comments

r/FightFor15 • u/funkalunatic • Apr 05 '21

McDonald's, other CEOs have confided to Investors that a $15 minimum wage won't hurt business

newsweek.com

14 Upvotes

0 comments

r/FightFor15 • u/__slomo__ • Mar 20 '21

We shouldn’t have to subsidize poverty wages for huge profitable corporations. Nobody who works a full-time job should need government assistance to live.

youtu.be

8 Upvotes

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r/FightFor15 • u/snooshoe • Mar 12 '21

$15 Minimum Wage Would Lift Millions Out of Poverty, Says... Wall Street Giant Morgan Stanley

commondreams.org

16 Upvotes

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r/FightFor15 • u/theladynora • Mar 12 '21

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to Take Minimum Wage Fight Directly to Joe Biden

newsweek.com

9 Upvotes

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r/FightFor15 • u/BernieFan421 • Mar 11 '21

Nobody should be working on a poverty wage. The failure of a $15/hr minimum wage is DISGRACEFUL. It’s critical that we elect leaders who fight for us, not for corporations and special interests. Jonathan Tasini talks about this more in his podcast, Working Life. Listen here!

youtu.be

4 Upvotes

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r/FightFor15 • u/snooshoe • Mar 07 '21

I gave my employees a $15 minimum wage. It didn't destroy my business.

businessinsider.com

14 Upvotes

0 comments

r/FightFor15 • u/StellarTabi • Mar 06 '21

I am once again asking for your cooperation.

19 Upvotes

0 comments

r/FightFor15 • u/StellarTabi • Mar 06 '21

The low wage is an apparent injustice to workers

15 Upvotes

3 comments

r/FightFor15 • u/eterneraki • Mar 06 '21

What should dictate minimum wage?

3 Upvotes

I guess my question is, why $15? If minimum wage does not cause inflation or adverse effects, why not make it 25 or 50?

6 comments

r/FightFor15 • u/__slomo__ • Mar 06 '21

The Fight for $15 isn’t just a worker’s right issue, it is a moral issue

youtu.be

3 Upvotes

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r/FightFor15 • u/StellarTabi • Mar 05 '21

Breaking: Lower class gut punched with gold plated brass knuckles

22 Upvotes

1 comment

r/FightFor15 • u/NbaLiveMobile10 • Mar 05 '21

[IMPORTANT] These are the 8 Senate Democrats who voted "No" on Bernie's amendment to include $15 min wage in Covid Relief Bill

5 Upvotes

Jon Tester - Montana

Joe Manchin - West Virginia

Jeanne Shaheen - New Hampshire

Angus King - Maine

Kyrsten Sinema - Arizona

Tom Carper - Deleware

Chris Coons - Deleware

Maggie Hassan - New Hampshire

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r/FightFor15 • u/snooshoe • Mar 06 '21

CBO analysis confirms that a $15 minimum wage raises earnings of low-wage workers, reduces inequality, and has significant and direct fiscal effects: Large progressive redistribution of income caused by higher minimum wage leads to significant and cross-cutting fiscal effects

epi.org

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r/FightFor15 • u/snooshoe • Mar 05 '21

The 8 Democrats who voted against the $15 minimum wage are together worth over $43 million

businessinsider.com

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Subreddit

Fight for a living minimum wage. $15, $20, $30, $50

r/FightFor15

/r/FightFor15 is a grassroots community designed to raise support and awareness for a nationwide federal minimum wage. The minimum wage of $7.25 hasn't increased in over 15 years. This subs original goal was $15 but even that isn't a living wage in most parts of the US. $15, $20, $30, $50 . This movement works to give workers a living wage and the right to unionize.

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Facts

Fast food is a $200 billion a year industry and retail is a $4.7 trillion industry, yet many service workers across the country earn minimum wage or just above it and are forced to rely on public assistance programs to provide for their families and get healthcare for their children. Each year, our labor brings billions of dollars into stores and restaurants nationwide, but almost all of these profits go to make executives and investors even richer, while we struggle to provide our families with basic necessities like food, rent, healthcare and transportation. Just in fast food, 52 percent of families are enrolled in one or more public assistance programs—like food stamps and medicaid—compared with 25 percent of the workforce as a whole. Such low wages cost taxpayers about $7 billion a year.

We believe that people who work hard for a living should make enough to support themselves, their families and their neighborhoods—and that workers should be treated with dignity and respect. We believe this will not only improve our lives, but create jobs and make the nation’s economy stronger.

The Facts

The Workers

The median wage for fast food workers is 8.94 an hour

The average fast food worker works only 24 hours a week due to restrictions

The average fast food worker makes 11,318 per year

The average fast food worker is 28 years old

78% are the main earners of the household

52% rely on public assistance

26% have children

Working full time, an adult with one child needs 20.86 an hour to just afford the basics.

The Corporations

The fast food industry costs taxpayers 7 billion dollars a year due to low wages.

McDonald's alone costs the tax payer 1.6 billion

Wendy's and Burger King both cost the taxpayer more than they make in profit

McDonald's makes 5.6 Billion in profit per year, and pays it's CEO 9.5 million

Burger King profits 234 million and pays it's CEO 4.7 million

Wendy's profits 46 million and pays it's CEO 7.6 million

It would take a fast food worker 777 Years to make the pay a CEO makes in one year

Rights:

All Workers have the right to:

Join a union

Attend a union meeting on the worker's own time

Speak with a union organizer

Declare himself as union supporters

Assist in forming a union

Even if the workers do not yet have a union, one is allowed to engage in a “concerted effort” with two or more workers to improve working conditions

Employers are forbidden by law to engage in certain conduct. It is ILLEGAL for an employer to…

Threaten the worker with discharge or punishment if you engage in union activity

Threaten to shut down business if a union is formed

Prevent the worker from recruiting union members during non-working hours

Question the worker about union matters, union meetings, or union supporters

Ask whether or not the worker belongs to a union or has signed up to join a union

Transfer or assign the worker to a less desirable work assignment because of his or her union activity

Threaten to terminate the worker's benefits due to unionization

Threaten to lay the worker off in retaliation for joining a union

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