04/24/2024

Q&A: SEIU President on Lessons for Labor in ‘Fight for $15’

What has been the biggest accomplishment of the Fight for $15 movement?

It’s reaffirmed a very bedrock principle of working people, which is when we join together, we can make the impossible, possible. This bodacious demand, four years ago, for $15 and a union—that people were laughing at, thought was crazy—the $15 part of that has become a standard against which people will debate. I have more people coming up to me than ever before and asking, “When is it going to $20? When are you upping the demand?”

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