The pundits
said it would never happen. But both California and New York on
Monday implemented legislation that moves them toward a tiered
minimum wage of $15 dollars an hour, covering 60 million Americans.
The hikes
come as a direct result of organizing by thousands of people in the
union-backed “Fight for 15” movement that kicked off in 2012 —
organizing that was quickly decried by pundits and opponents as
unrealistic and unlikely to ever succeed.
The Fight
for 15 movement began when several hundred fast food workers in New
York City went on a brief strike to call for higher wages; by the
next year, this movement had spread to dozens of cities, with workers
going on miniature strikes and protest marches to call for a $15 an
hour wage.
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