Fight for $15

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John -- Make some noise for the workers in the streets!! Tens of thousands of us took action today -- from Seoul to NYC to LA -- for the #StrikeforBlackLives to demand JUSTICE for Black workers . And we turned OUT in 160 cities across the US.

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Generations of Black workers have been exploited, while our bosses make bigger and bigger profits. We're overpoliced. We're underpaid. We're dying at higher rates from COVID-19. And we know that it's not an accident.

Black essential workers like us -- fast-food workers, nursing home workers, janitors, delivery people -- have kept this country running at huge risk to our lives. Now, all workers are demanding MORE.

In Chicago, Fight for $15 leaders called on McDonald's to guarantee all frontline workers personal protective gear like masks and a living wage for all.

Protesters in Chicago. [[link removed]]


Protesters across the country took a knee at noon local time for 8 minutes and 46 seconds to honor George Floyd and so many others killed by police violence.

Teamsters kneeling in New York to honor George Floyd. [[link removed]]


In Oakland, fast-food workers, Amazon workers, clergy, and other activists demanded an end to racial discrimination and unsafe working conditions.

Oakland protesters hold a banner. [[link removed]]


Murals went up in eight cities calling for racial justice and an end to police violence.

Strike for Black Lives mural. [[link removed]]


Together, we demand justice for Black communities, we demand that the government do its job to protect ALL workers, we demand corporations be held accountable, and we demand the right to form and join a union no matter where we work.

Thanks to the workers, partner unions, organizations, activists, the brave people who turned out, and the folks like you who spoke out and shared our message, we did it -- but we're far from done.

We're going to keep speaking up for racial and economic justice until we get it.

Together in justice,

Ieshia Townsend
McDonald's Worker
Chicago, IL
Fight for $15 and a Union

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