Fight For 15 Action

The Fight for $15 started with just a few hundred fast food workers in New York City, striking for $15 an hour and union rights. Today, we’re an international movement in over 300 cities on six continents of fast-food workers, home health aides, child care teachers, airport workers, adjunct professors, retail employees and underpaid workers everywhere. For too long, McDonald’s and low-wage employers have made billions of dollars in profit and pushed off costs onto taxpayers, while leaving people like us—the people who do the real work—to struggle to survive. That’s why we strike. We can’t feed our families, pay our bills or even keep a roof over our heads on minimum wage pay. When we first took the streets, the skeptics called us dreamers and said a $15 wage was “unwinnable.” We didn’t listen.