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Unions and Poor People s Campaign call on Democrats to back $15 per hour minimum wage

UNIONS and the National Poor People’s Campaign (NPPC) have joined forces to press the US government to raise the national minimum wage to $15 an hour (£10.60) in the run-up to a vote in Congress tomorrow. Demonstrations took place in at least nine states earlier this week, with protesters carrying signs demanding that legislators raise the federal minimum wage, now $7.25 (£5.15), in stages by 2025. The NPPC was joined by Service Employees Union president Mary Kay Henry in targeting two wavering Senate Democrats, West Virginia’s Joe Manchin and Arizona’s Kyrsten Sinema. NPPC co-chairwoman Liz Theoharis said: “If the two defect, in a 50-50 Senate, the minimum wage hike goes down the drain, at least as part of Democratic President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion [£1.34trn] American Recovery Plan Act.”

On the picket line

On the picket line McDonald’s workers win settlement In Los Angeles, between April and August 2020, workers at a McDonald’s complained about inadequate protection from COVID, including lack of social distancing and forcible exposure to customers who refused to wear masks. Following strikes to protest these unsafe working conditions, McDonald’s management retaliated by firing several workers.  On the fired workers’ behalf, Service Employees Union Local 721 filed a letter  with the California Labor Commissioner’s Retaliation Complaint Investigation Unit. The Labor Commission’s judgment requires McDonald’s to pay more than $125,900 in lost wages and retaliation penalties and orders that management offer the workers their jobs back.

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