Vote for $15

The Fight for $15 has defied expectations by transforming a magnetic labor rallying cry into a popular grassroots movement, making the once unimaginable the new normal. The successes of Fight for $15 speak to the power of workers not only to galvanize a broad base of popular support for their cause, but also to build coalitions with movements ranging from Black Lives Matter to campus student-labor campaigns. How will this new movement remain relevant and advance progressive labor organizing? Beyond simply raising the minimum wage by decree, reestablishing a baseline of job security and living-wage work requires grassroots empowerment of the most precarious sectors.