15 Now

While Corporate America is making record profits, many workers can barely afford basic necessities. Join our grassroots campaign for a $15/hr minimum wage.

15 Now was launched in January of 2014 by Seattle City Council Member, Kshama Sawant and Socialist Alternative to fight for a $15 minimum wage in Seattle. Just 5 months later Seattle was the first major city to pass $15 for all workers.

15 Now chapters quickly spread across the country. It is a campaign that anyone can join and help build. Our Vision for Building the Movement for $15

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economic inequality in the US has reached historic proportions. The top 1% increased their income following capitalism’s Great Recession while the overwhelming majority of working people are still struggling or are even worse off than before. We demand social justice and a dignified life for all workers. The movement for a minimum wage of $15/hour is an expression this enormous problem of inequality. The support for the fast food workers actions for $15 showed that the aspirations of Occupy to fight against poverty and inequality are alive and growing among millions. The struggle to raise the minimum wage is lively and dynamic movement which is developing all across the US. 15 Now is part of this wider movement, open for all to join and fight with us. Every worker deserves a living wage. The fight for 15 is just the first step towards a living wage. Low-wage jobs are disproportionately held by people of color, women and immigrants so the fight for 15 is also a question of racial, gender and social equality. We aim to build the widest possible unity in action of labor, community, and social justice organizations. Our goal is to empower working people and activate them into fighting movement. We aim to build a network of activists, organized in Action Groups in neighborhoods, on campuses and in workplaces, or through allied trade unions, community and immigrant rights organizations. This is our vision across the US: People organizing from below can challenge the 1 percent’s domination of economic and political system and change the balance of power in our society. The key to winning is building up the power of working people expressed in their level of organization, consciousness, unity and determination to struggle.

07/28/2021

We quantified the impact of the , and it's over $150 billion in raises for 26 million workers. $76 billion of that has gone to workers of color. It's time for Congress to catch up and .

05/17/2021

https://www.google.com/amp/s/detroit.eater.com/platform/amp/2021/5/14/22436509/mcdonalds-worker-strike-detroit-flint-fight-for-15-minimum-wage

The recent wage hike doesn’t apply to 95 percent of workers at franchise restaurants. Detroit and Flint workers will join McDonald’s employees in 15 other cities in a walkout next week.

05/12/2021

Striking cashiers and cooks say there's an easy solution to McDonald's labor shortage: a $15 minimum wage.

03/05/2021

This is why working-class people have had to build an independent movement and struggle every step of the way to win $15/hour. We cannot trust the Democratic establishment to fight for what working-class people need.

03/02/2021

"Biden and the Democrats need to deliver on the wage hike they promised—by any means necessary."

Biden and the Democrats need to deliver on the wage hike they promised—by any means necessary. Anything less is a moral and political failure.

02/25/2021

The wage increase in the Covid relief bill also applies to tipped workers and others making a subminimum wage. Democrats should fight tooth and nail to make it law.

02/05/2021

Biden’s Raise the Wage Act should ensure that tipped workers receive fair pay.

02/04/2021

A $15 minimum wage is being discussed nationally because of years of grassroots organizing by working-class people & fast-food worker strikes starting in 2012 . Watch City Councilmember Kshama Sawant talk with Krystal Ball about the movement of labor, community groups, and socialists, that made Seattle the first major city to pass a $15 minimum wage in 2014, & the launch of

Kshama Sawant, Seattle City Council member, discusses why raising the minimum wage is important and what it will take to increase it nationally.About Rising:...

01/27/2021

There's no wealth creation; it's just stealing from the working class. Raising the minimum wage to $15/hour nationally is long overdue. Fifteen has been a fight against the political establishment (both Democrat and Republican) and big business at every step. At a minimum, workers need a $15/hour minimum wage, and we must use the momentum from our movement to go after the real looters in society: the billionaires who've profited off the misery they're putting us through in this pandemic.

01/14/2021

The new year brings another round of increases, nearly a decade after workers started campaigning for higher pay.

06/02/2020

On this day in 2014, Seattle became the first major city to adopt a $15/hr minimum wage. This victory kicked off a series of similar victories across the country. A key role in this fight was played by Socialist Alternative and our City Councilmenber Kshama Sawant, who initiated the 15 Now campaign and fought back against the counter efforts of big businesses, the labor bureaucracy and the Democratic Party mayor and city council majority.

También en español The fight for a $15 an hour minimum wage is gaining further momentum. On April 1, Seattle´s low-wage workers will see the first rise thanks to the efforts of workers, labor, and 15 Now. Seattle is the first major city to implement a $15 an hour minimum wage, phased in over t

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