‘I work two jobs not by choice but because I don’t receive enough hours at either job to cover my basic needs to support my family. With each paycheck that I earn I have to stretch.’
THE FIGHT FOR $15 CONTINUES (WHETHER YOU’RE WATCHING OR NOT)
“I am fighting for a decent paycheck. I never thought I would be in the streets protesting, but I can’t survive on what I make now.”
MANCHESTER DIVIDED: SEIU ‘FIGHTS FOR $15’ IN NH WHILE ITS CANDIDATE FIGHTS FOR $12
What doesn’t make sense is why SEIU pulled out 500 people onto a chilly windswept hill in suburban New Hampshire to protest for a laudable reform that their chosen presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton, absolutely does not support.
MANCHESTER DIVIDED: PROTEST PREP
New Hampshire activists ask for “platform based on community’s needs”
FALL BACK, PROTESTS AHEAD: OCTOBER IS FOR ACTIVISM
FALL BACK, PROTESTS AHEAD: OCTOBER IS FOR ACTIVISM
LABOR REVOLT IN THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIK
“At the end of the day, the lesson will be that none of us really can live on $10 a day.”
SECRET ASIAN MAN: COMMENT BOMBS!
Pre-made comment bombs for the busy social networker
CATCHING UP WITH TODAY’S #MAYDAY RALLYERS IN GREATER BOSTON
“We don’t want a favor. We want to work to bring ourselves out of poverty.”
PICS & DISPATCH: PARK STREET FAST FOOD STRIKE FORESHADOWS THURSDAY #ENOUGHISENOUGH RALLY IN BOSTON
Images by Chris Faraone This afternoon’s fast food worker strike at the Burger King across from Park Street was kind of like the slogan on those juvenile old Co-Ed Naked Tennis t-shirts: They were in, they were out, it was over. Short as their lunchtime rally was, workers with the Fight for $15 […]
STRIKING HOTEL WORKERS RALLY IN CAMBRIDGE, HARVARD STUDENTS BACK THEM UP
“I am shocked and I am appalled and I am horrified that Harvard is taking choices away from its workers, that Harvard is giving DoubleTree workers the awful choice of caring for their bodies or keeping the jobs they need to care for their families.”
