California legislators and labor unions have reached an agreement that will take the state’s minimum wage from $10 to $15 an hour, a state senator said. However the state senator quickly added up telling that this was done yet done a deal and everyone were in good faith that this would go through to be passed in the legislature
Thousands of McDonald's employees demanding higher wages have descended on the city of Oak Brook, IL for the company's annual shareholder meeting, just as the city of Los Angeles became the largest municipality in the country to say that it would increase its minimum wage to $15 an hour.
After years of organizing and demonstrating by labor advocates that led to successful ballot measures increasing the minimum wage, 20 states will see their minimum wages increase in 2015.
Fast food workers across the United States walked off their jobs to strike and demonstrate for an increase in the minimum wage to $15 an hour.
As shoppers across the country stampeded and fought each other to be the first in line for heavily discounted goods, people also turned out at stores in acts of organized protest.
Dozens of fast food workers in cities throughout the United States were arrested in a coordinated series of protests and actions of civil disobedience to demand a minimum wage of $15 and the right to unionize.
In one of the largest labor actions in recent history, fast food workers in 150 cities are planning strikes and acts of civil disobedience for Thursday, Sept. 4.
