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Fight For $15 Targets Trump Voters

November 30, 2016

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In the four years that “Fight For $15” – an activist group working to raise the minimum wage – has existed, it has seen success in urban centers in California, Washington, and New York. Now the group’s leaders say they want to reach out beyond the urban working poor to speak to the middle-class Americans whose economic frustration was a key driver in the election of President-elect Donald Trump. “A whole bunch of us out there are not doing well,” Scott Courtney, executive vice president of the Service Empoyees International Union and a leader in Fight for $15, told the New York Times. Some labor experts have noted that the movement’s success came as a result of its’ unusual organizing tactic. “The campaign has effectively bargained for wages first – through protests and public relations offenses aimed at voters, politicians, and corporations – and hopes to build new worker organizations in after those successes,” the Times writes.

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