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Fast food workers plan biggest nationwide strike
Fast food workers are gearing up for a new strike to fight for a $15 minimum wage and to help sway the election.
The fight for a $15 minimum wage continues.
Next week, the largest nationwide fast food strike will take place, and this time protesters are hoping to influence the results of the next presidential election. The group representing the workers, Fight for $15, plans to stage protests at restaurants in 270 cities on Nov. 10, the most since it began organizing the demonstrations three years ago.Then, striking fast-food and other low-wage workers will gather at local city halls, kicking off a campaign to encourage voters to cast their ballots in 2016 for candidates who support the minimum wage increase.
“We’re putting politicians on notice that we’re going to hold them accountable,” says Kendall Fells, the organizing director of Fight for $15, in USA Today.
Top Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton and progressive underdog Bernie Sanders have both been vocal about their support for higher wages for fast food workers. The Fight for $15 campaign is planning a major initiative to sign up unregistered votes over the next year. According to an article in USA Today, nearly 70 percent of unregistered voters would sign up, and a similar share of registered voters would be more likely to go to the polls, if there were a presidential candidate in favor of a $15 minimum wage and workers’ right to unionize.
New York has already approved a $15 minimum wage for fast food workers to be implemented by 2018, and similar measures have been adopted in San Francisco and Seattle—but workers in many other areas of the country are still hoping to make such an increase a reality.
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FollowNick Powills, CFE, founded No Limit Agency in 2008 and serves as Chief Brand Strategist for the Chicago-based firm. No Limit is a full-service communications agency that establishes and elevates brands by bridging Public Relations, Social Media, Marketing, Advertising, Digital, and a lot of creativity, to best strategize well-rounded and successful campaigns for 50+ global franchise brands. By presenting visionary ideas and building real relationships, No Limit is able to create effective media branding strategies to help companies grow. Nick currently leads a staff of writers, media strategists, designers, social media experts and digital producers in an office think-tank where brands are humanized for strong, compelling media stories. Prior to starting No Limit at the age of 27, Nick spent four years working at a franchise PR agency where he mastered the art of building rapport with media outlets and creating newsworthy pitches for earned media placements. He holds a Bachelor of Journalism from Drake University in Iowa.
