We’re not resting until all working people are treated with dignity and respect. We're fighting for economic and racial justice. Join us. #UnionsForAll
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BREAKING: Fast food workers nationwide are going on strike for $15 an hour, COVID-safe workplaces, and respect on the job February 16. #FightFor15 workers have been fighting too long for higher wages.
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EVERYBODY WATCH.
ICE IS OUT OF CONTROL.
Video of SEIU California’s President David Huerta getting assaulted & arrested during an ICE raid in the warehouse district of Downtown Los Angeles today.
He’s an LA native, American citizen and labor leader.
Don’t turn away.
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Grammy winner, icon, union organizer?
Chappell Roan calls for labels to give new artists a liveable wage and healthcare during her #GRAMMYs acceptance speech:
“I told myself if I ever won a Grammy and I got to stand up here in-front of the most powerful people in music, I would demand that labels and the industry profiting millions of dollars off artists would offer a liveable wage and healthcare, especially to developing artists… labels we got you, but do you got us?”
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Breaking: @Target to raise wages for all 323,000 employees to $15/hour by 2020. Never underestimate the power of organizing! #FightFor15
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"I'd love to hear anybody get up here and tell me that they could live on seven and a quarter an hour, they could live on eight bucks an hour, they could live on nine bucks an hour, YOU CAN'T."
-@SenSanders on the Senate floor right now
#FightFor15 #RaiseTheWage
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BREAKING: Florida just became the 8th state to pass a $15 minimum wage with a SUPERMAJORITY of Floridians voting YES to Amendment 2.
Hats off to the efforts of the workers & volunteers in the #FLfor15 coalition.
We're just getting started! #FightFor15
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Across more than 15 cities, from here in Memphis, to Detroit, to Durham, North Carolina, and beyond, fast-food cooks and cashiers are striking today to demand that employers like @McDonalds pay us $15 an hour
#FightFor15 businessinsider.com/mcdonald…
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PORTLAND SHOWED UP.
#NoKings #NoBillionaires
40,000 strong!
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if you too want to know the joys of walking around in a circle, talking **** about your biggest opps, a picket line might be the place for you
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"Just get a second job. You all think the world owes you something." #BoomerAdvice
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.@AOC talks about how @McDonalds only raised wages for about 5% of locations "We're not buying it. We're not falling for it.
I'm here to tell @McDonalds directly that you're not going to do this as a PR effort and trick us.
It's time to step up and be honest." #FightFor15
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Today's projected dividend payment from @McDonalds is $929.4 million. If 1 in 10 crew members became ill with COVID-19 or needed to quarantine they could provide 2 weeks of paid leave at $15/hr for just 6.6.% of that amount—instead they lavish money on Wall Street.
#FightFor15
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BREAKING: Six years after the first #FightFor15 strike, the U.S. House just passed the #RaiseTheWage Act to increase the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour!
Organizing works. Strikes work. We're not even close to done! #RaiseTheWageNow
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Question: Will the bill that you send to the Senate have a $15 minimum wage in it?
@SpeakerPelosi: Yes, it will. We're very proud of that. As I said, 27 million people will get a raise. 70% of them women and we will be sending that.
Let's go folks!
#RaiseTheWage #FightFor15
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BREAKING: Republicans in Missouri have just voted to LOWER the minimum wage for tens of thousands of workers and families #FightFor15 #MOLeg
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Take notice:
"This is our mission. We are going to pass the $15 minimum wage."
@SpeakerPelosi #RaiseTheWage #FightFor15
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Costco @Teamsters striking in bulk 💪
ALT CNBC article headline stating that a Costco union representing 18,000 workers has authorized a nationwide strike, published on January 20, 2025.
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BREAKING: This morning Monterey Park, California, McDonald's workers went ON STRIKE because @McDonalds isn't adequately protecting us from #Coronavirus. Fast-food workers are FED UP and we aren't alone!
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#FightFor15 #UnionsForAll #SaveWorkers #Covid19
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BREAKING: Workers across the country are ON STRIKE! Thousands worldwide are supporting and taking part in the #StrikeForBlackLives RIGHT NOW.
Stand with the workers on #j20
Learn how: bit.ly/STRIKE4BL
#FightFor15
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BREAKING: July 20th, workers across the country will walk off their jobs.
There is no economic justice without racial justice.
RSVP for the #StrikeForBlackLives: bit.ly/STRIKE4BL
#FightFor15
ALT Stirke! for Black Lives July 20, 2020
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We're with the workers!
BREAKING: Four unions of 13,000 Disney workers have scheduled a strike authorization vote that could shut down Disneyland.
After filing multiple unfair labor practice charges against the company for illegal intimidation, surveillance, and threats, workers could move to strike.
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More like everyone, including EMTs and fast-food workers, are underpaid as the mega rich suck up all the economic gains at a time when inequality is the highest it's been since records started being kept.
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"In 2019, @McDonald' made over 6 billion in profits and paid its CEO over 18 million in compensation, while the average worker at McDonald's makes as little as $9 an hour. Unfortunately, their CEO of McDonald's also declined to testify before us today." @SenSanders #FightFor15
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BREAKING: @SheenBean32, the very first #FightFor15 worker to go on strike in St. Louis, is the projected winner of Missouri State Assembly's 78th District!
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"Beyond Disgraceful." That's how Sen. @BernieSanders reacted when we shared how little we get paid working fast-food in Iowa.
#FightFor15 workers on strike met with Senator Sanders at the #PeoplesForum in Des Moines.
We won't give up. We will win $15 and #UnionsForAll
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We're excited to announce that Senator @BernieSanders will be joining @McDonalds workers taking action this Sunday in Iowa as we #FightFor15, union rights, and workplaces free from sexual harassment and violence. bit.ly/2EU0JOy
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His hourly salary when he began with the Home Depot $12. His salary when fired: $12.78. After 10 years of service. #FightFor15
After outrage, @HomeDepot hires back #Albany man it fired for confronting a racist customer. My column:
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Get ready for the worst pizza you've ever had in your life
SPOTTED: MOD Pizza managers and executives are covering the counter after all the workers walked out on strike.
Workers walked out to demand a $15/hour minimum wage, a guaranteed 30-hour workweek, and an end to racism and favoritism in the workplace.
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Sad day for the people in our mentions who swear fast food work is so easy a robot could do it.
McDonald’s is ditching its drive-through AI ordering system after too many customers wound up with totally incorrect orders like a handful of butter, hundreds of chicken nuggets, and ice cream loaded with bacon fastcompany.com/91142882/mcd…
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Billionaires are hoarding empty homes.
There is NO way in which the uber-wealthy are NOT trying to screw us.
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We out here, y'all. Conservatives picked a partisan judge in a heavily Republican area to command the state to kick 234,000 Wisconsin voters off the rolls. 3 people at the rally are getting purged and they haven't moved. We know what they are really trying to do. 👀 #Election2020
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BREAKING: With @GovDanMcKee's signature, the $15 minimum wage is now law in Rhode Island.
Congratulations to all the workers, union members, elected officials, and advocates who have fought tirelessly for years to make the #FightFor15 a reality in Rhode Island.
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.@McDonalds working cat solidarity.
ALT A brown striped tabby sitting in a burger-shaped box. They are wearing a red apron with the McDonald's logo.
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Pizza Hut demanding Florida workers risk their lives for min wage. GTFO. H/T @KatiSipp #HurricaneIrma #Fightfor15
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"I hope folks understand, $15 was already the compromise"
Rep. @RashidaTlaib right now on the House floor talking about the dire need for a minimum wage increase in her district and nationwide.
#RaiseTheWage #FightFor15
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Local billionaire angered at the idea of workers having a single second to ourselves.
ALT Kevin O'Leary expressing strong anti-worker opinions in an article on Yahoo Finance.
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Employers: We've got tons of empty jobs but no one wants to work!
The jobs:
ALT Now hiring - restaurant servers needed. Pay: $2.13 an hour. Benefits: Tips, Employee Discount, Referral program. Schedule: Day shift Night shift Overtime required weekends required, apply within
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A worker making the $7.25/hr federal minimum wage would have to work over 17 hours just to be able to buy this COVID home test.
#Fightfor15
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BREAKING: After workers organize strikes at over 350 restaurants across the state, California’s State Senate has passed #AB257
Today is a watershed moment in the history of the labor movement; 550,000 fast food workers in CA will soon have a seat at the table with our employers
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Essential workers like these Domino's pros have been out there feeding, healing, and protecting our communities since before the pandemic.
The Texas minimum wage is $7.25.
Essential workers deserve fair pay. Tell your Senators to #RaiseTheWage in the COVID bill: 888-639-5155
Viewer Judy DeLuna submitted this photo to @News4SA @KABBFOX29 of a @dominos in San Antonio. She says they had a weekend’s worth of food and it was gone in 4 hours. “These are the essential workers that need recognition,” Judy writes. Thank you for feeding your neighbors 🙏
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Sen. @BernieSanders is the first candidate to bring up the need to raise minimum wage to $15 an hour for all workers.
#DemDebate #DemocraticDebate #FightFor15
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There was a lot of competition, especially going up against Amazon and Starbucks, but he did it.
#UnionsForAll
ALT Union Buster of the Year: Fired Union Activists at Telsa. Tesla retaliates against women reporting sexual Picture of Elon Musk on Time magazine. Union Buster of the Year: Fired Union Activists at Tesla. Tesla retaliates against women reporting sexual harassment. Tesla ordered to pay $127 million to black employee who sued for racial discriminationharassment. Tesla ordered to pay $127 million to black employee who sued for racial discrimination
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BREAKING: After being told to wear dog diapers and coffee filters as masks, two-dozen workers at an Oakland @McDonalds are on strike after COVID-19 outbreak. 4 workers positive, 3 others sick; workers’ kids sick, including 10-month-old baby
#FightFor15 #ProtectAllWorkers
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Today, Mayor @PeteButtigieg was in Kansas City & took time to meet with @standup_kc workers in the #FightFor15.
As he said, "It's just not possible on the wages that are being paid to millions of Americans to be able to raise a family"
We'll keep fighting and win #UnionsForAll
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BREAKING: #SCOTUS has ruled against workers. We stand in solidarity with our public sector #union family, and stay focused on on mission: To organize each other and turn poverty-wage jobs into good jobs. #WeRise #FightFor15 #Janus
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We get what we fight for
ALT Two-part meme contrasting stability: top image shows someone writing in sand, captioned "A boss's promises," bottom image shows someone carving words into stone, captioned "A union contract.
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Yesterday, when @SenSanders was discussing the new $15 minimum wage at Amazon, he took the time to thank the workers who power the #FightFor15 on the daily.
We remember meeting with Bernie in 2014 in North Carolina. He's stood with us for the long haul. Solidarity ✊🏾
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BREAKING: Following strikes at over 350 locations, fast food workers across California are ON STRIKE, including holding a 24 hour vigil on the state Capitol lawn
This summer, CA can make history by ensuring over half a million fast food workers have a seat at the table. #AB257
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McDonald's can afford to pay every worker $15 an hour and respect our union rights. Take it from Nicole, a @McDonalds worker and 3F union member in Denmark making $22/hr with 6 weeks paid vacation and paid sick leave.
#FastFoodGlobal #FightFor15
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“@McDonalds, if you really believe Black lives matter, it’s time to stop with the lip service and start with real action: treat your Black employees like our lives matter”
#StrikeForBlackLives apnews.com/0fbc6aa5a60520900…
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Following reports of President Biden’s comments that the minimum wage ‘can’t survive’ Senate reconciliation rules, Detroit McDonald’s worker and #FightFor15 leader David Williams released the following statement:
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Here is the sign this short-staffed El Paso restaurant put out on all their tables whining that "due to government handouts no one wants to work anymore ..."
Here is that restaurant's hiring ad. They pay $2.13 an hour.
something, something ... stones, glass houses #FightFor15
ALT Corralito steak house sign reads, "sadly, due to government handouts no one wants to work anymore. Therefore, we are short staffed. Please be patient with the staff that did choose to come to work today and remember to tip your server. They chose to show up to serve you.
ALT Corralito Steak House: Restaurant server. Pay: $2.13 per hour
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.@BernieSanders is in! He's joining us to #FightFor15 and #union rights for all workers on Labor Day!
RSVP TODAY: bit.ly/LaborDay17
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This is a testament to the years of organizing McDonald’s workers have put into the #FightFor15
The truth is that this raise will affect fewer than 5% of McDonald’s US locations and it will only be an average increase by 2024
Workers still strike May 19
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We getting Surge Wages with that or...
Wendy’s planning Uber-style ‘surge pricing’ where burger prices fluctuate based on demand trib.al/w0oqYjj
Community note
Wendy’s says its “dynamic” pricing model will only result in “discounts and value” during the slowest times of the day — leaving other times of the day with standard prices.
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"The highest check I ever got was literally $291.I can't take it no more. I'm halfway homeless."
Sylcoria was on strike this week in Durham and shared her very real story about why $15/hr is needed ASAP. $8.50/hr is a starvation wage.
#FightFor15 #RaiseTheWage
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The federal minimum wage is $7.25/hr and hasn’t been raised in 14 years. The people are in favor of raising the wage. We need our politicians to step up and get it done.
bit.ly/45PseDV
#RaiseTheWage
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Rip Torn standing with locked out workers speaking about his long-time union membership and solidarity in the 1970s.
RIP
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Fast food workers across the country are on strike today to demand McDonald's, the bottom-of-the-barrel industry leader, pay every one of their workers $15 NOW.
Workers are demanding fair pay and standards. Add your voice: bit.ly/MCD15now #FightFor15
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BREAKING: In a 35-12 vote, the Maryland Senate joins the House in overriding the Governor's veto.
Maryland is now officially the 6th state to pass the $15 minimum wage!
#FightFor15
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All 50 GOP Senators voted against raising the minimum wage to $15/hr last year.
Not a single one came out in favor of the PRO Act.
If you want workers to thrive, we need #UnionsForAll and we need to #RaiseTheWage
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BREAKING: Missouri voters, for the first time in any state, have rolled back the corporate attack on workers' rights disguised as "right to work." We won't sit back and let big business take our rights' away on the job! We won't back down on #union rights! #FightFor15
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"What we need is a president who recognizes we are not just fighting for one election. We are fighting for the very soul of our democracy and what society we want to become." @IlhanMN #ThePeoplesForum #FightFor15
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.@SenSanders fired up just now about the #GOPTaxPlan, "One day we will have a government that actually stands up for the people and not the billionaires and the Koch brothers!"
#NotOnePenny #FightFor15 #TaxScamBill #GOPTaxPlan
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.@McDonalds workers tired of risking their lives are ON STRIKE today to demand PPE, hazard pay, & paid sick leave! McD's lobbied to get workers deemed essential during COVID-19, but won't give them ALL basic protections. #ProtectAllWorkers fightfor15.org/covid19/
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Fast-food workers are going on strike January 15, on what would be MLK's 92nd birthday, to demand $15/hr and the right to a union! Workers will not back down until everyone makes at least $15!
#FightFor15 bit.ly/2KbHaap
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"I want her death to be a rallying cry for justice and equality and fairness and compassion." Susan Bro, Heather Heyer's mother
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BREAKING: The House of Representatives just passed the LANDMARK Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act making it easier for EVERYONE to join a union.
Because of your work, we're closer than ever to winning #UnionsForAll!
#PROAct #FightFor15
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BREAKING: Sen. @BernieSanders and Rep. @AOC will be joining #FightFor15 fast-food workers ON STRIKE tomorrow for a livestream at 12PM ET. We'll be sharing our stories, spreading solidarity, and fighting for fair pay! Watch live on Facebook and Twitter!
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You've got to see #SorryToBotherYou. @BootsRiley has been feet in the street for decades. We were so proud to have him stand with #FightFor15 workers in Oakland during our first fast food strike in the Bay. #STBY
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BREAKING: @McDonalds workers in San Jose joined LA workers in walking off the job this morning because of unsafe conditions amid the #CoronaPandemic
"We’re going outside and striking because we have no protection. There’s no soap or hand sanitizer."
#FightFor15
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BREAKING: The largest @Starbucks in the world, the Chicago Reserve Roastery has filed for union election with @SBWorkersUnited !!
#UnionsForAll
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Today is Ronald Reagan's birthday. He should not be in the Labor Hall of Honor.
Today, Ronald Reagan was inducted into the US Department of Labor Hall of Honor. That's an insult to all workers who have built the labor movement. (1/ 8)
#DOLHonorsReagan #FightFor15
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