The bill, which now heads to the Senate for a vote, seeks to gradually double the federal minimum wage to $15 for all hourly workers, including those who are paid via tips.

“State interference in city minimum wage laws stems from a larger Jim Crow legacy of blocking economic policies that primarily benefit communities of color.”

Activists: “Companies can either snatch back our raise and take food out of the mouths of children, or they can do the right thing by honoring the St. Louis wage increase and paying us at least $10 an hour.”

The living wage campaign staged major protests across the country this week.

Fast food CEO Andrew Puzder once praised hypothetical machine-operated workers by saying, “They’re always polite, they always upsell, they never take a vacation, they never show up late, there’s never a slip-and-fall, or an age, sex, or race discrimination case.”

Why combating wage theft—including non-payment, denial of overtime, requiring off-the-clock work and paying below minimum wage—should be a bigger political priority. 

Eighty percent of the workers who will benefit are people of color.

If it passes, the proposed plan would require all businesses to pay workers at least $15 an hour by 2023.

State legislators just passed a law that blocks local lawmakers from requiring businesses to pay employees more than $7.25 an hour. Unfortunately, Alabama isn’t alone.

Fast-food, janitorial, health-care and other workers hit the streets yesterday to demand a $15 hourly minimum wage and more job security.

Organizers are calling yesterday’s Fight for $15 demonstrations the largest minimum-wage action in U.S. history.

Presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders will introduce a bill in Congress to up the minimum wage to $15 an hour.

The Illinois gathering would have been unheard of two years ago