OH workers join national fight for higher pay

Citing a recent survey by NELP that showed 65 percent of low-wage workers – groups that represents 48 million potential voters – “would be more likely to vote in the coming presidential race if a candidate supported a $15 minimum wage and unionization”, Lathrop said.

Workers in 270 cities are expected to walk out in what organizers hope will be the fast food industry’s largest strike ever. Demonstrations took place in Boston, NY City, Philadelphia and other cities with workers from McDonald’s, Burger King and other quick-service restaurants, as well as home care, child care, farm, FedEx and nursing home minimum-wage employees.

In Los Angeles County, the protesters assembled in front of a McDonald’s to head for the Los Angeles City Hall in their march. Another 9,000 upstate employees would see an increase over the following three years. The next candidate followed by calling the minimum wage “a disaster” for the 20th century and predicted catastrophe for the 21st should the day come when higher wages “make people more expensive than a machine”.

“Yet, millions of families nationwide continue to be left behind by an insufficient minimum wage, and it’s time that changed”, he said.

Andrew Cuomo in September announced his support to raise the minimum wage for workers in the state to $15 an hour. “Why? Because NY is not just another state my friends”, Cuomo said.

Mayor Bill Peduto of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania announced at a Tuesday morning press conference that he issued an executive that would gradually bring the minimum wage of city workers to $15 an hour.

“I’m fighting for a better life and for a better future”, he said. According to Fox News, the current $8.75 minimum is already set to rise to $9 at year’s end under a law passed by lawmakers in 2013. You raise the minimum wage.

A coalition of at least 30 union and social justice organizations sponsored events around California.

“Now we’ve got to finish the job”, he said.

De Blasio’s budget office noted the phased-in wage hike for city workers is being performed on a faster schedule than has been proposed for state workers.

“The cost of housing has been going up, the cost of food has been going up, the cost of living has been going up, but our wages are still the same”, he said.