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$15 minimum wage movement to vote on organizing mass fast-food worker strike

August 13, 2016 by PublicSkeleton Leave a Comment

$15 minimum wage movement to vote on organizing mass fast-food worker strike
by Donovan Harrell, Politico

(August 13, 2016 7:49 a.m.) — The “Fight for $15” minimum wage movement will hold its first-ever convention Saturday, where roughly 3,000 who will vote on a resolution calling for mass strikes among fast-food workers nationwide.

Thousands of members of the movement head to Richmond, Va. this weekend, and among the items on the agenda is a resolution that would call on the organization to organize the fast-food strikes and a string of accompanying homecare and childcare worker protests.

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Filed Under: Bernie Sanders 2016 Tagged With: $15 minimum wage, $7.29, 08/13/2016, A Future to Believe In, Campaign 2016, fast-food workers, Fight for $15, Green Party, LCSL, living wage, mass strikes, National Conference of State Legislature, political revolution, Presidential Campaign 2016, progressive, SEIU, Service Employees International Union

Bernie Sanders Won by Waiting to Endorse Hillary Clinton

July 11, 2016 by PublicSkeleton Leave a Comment

Bernie Sanders Won by Waiting to Endorse Hillary Clinton
By Sam Frizell, Time

(July 11, 2016 3:00 p.m.) — When Bernie Sanders arrives in Portsmouth, N.H., on Tuesday to endorse his bitter rival Hillary Clinton after overwhelmingly losing the Democratic primary, he will be holding a handful of policy victories.

From free college to a tax on carbon emissions, Sanders has managed to finesse some of his liberal policies into the Democratic Party’s platform and cajole Clinton’s campaign into accepting some of his most liberal proposals. Weeks of backroom and telephone negotiations resulted in Sanders-backed policy ideas landing on Clinton’s platform and in the Democratic Party’s blueprint, outlined in a hefty platform draft that was finished last weekend in Orlando.

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Bernie Sanders earns $15 minimum wage amendment to Democratic platform

July 9, 2016 by PublicSkeleton Leave a Comment

Bernie Sanders earns $15 minimum wage amendment to Democratic platform
By the Associated Press

(July 9, 2016 9:12 a.m.) — ORLANDO, Fla. – Bernie Sanders’ crusade to shape the Democratic party platform scored a win late Friday night, with the approval of an amendment calling for increasing the federal minimum wage to $15 over time.

The fight to get more explicit platform language around wages showed the Vermont senator’s campaign still fighting for the liberal issues that made up his “political revolution” even as his clout fades.

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$15 minimum wage movement to vote on organizing mass fast-food worker strike

Bernie Sanders Won by Waiting to Endorse Hillary Clinton

Bernie Sanders earns $15 minimum wage amendment to Democratic platform

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