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Posts Tagged ‘Fight for $15’

East Bay businesses and politicians react to new state minimum wage

By Matt Beagle | April 4, 2016
Nancy Skinner speaks at a rally in Oakland on Cesar Chavez Day. Photo by Serla Rusli

Today in Los Angeles, Governor Jerry Brown signed off on a new minimum wage bill that will make California the state with the highest in the country at $15 an hour by 2022. The bill cleared the state legislature last Thursday.

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Hundreds of workers rally across the East Bay for the “Fight for $15”

By Bonnie Chan | April 16, 2015

Fast food and low-wage workers in Oakland, Richmond and Berkeley joined a workers’ strike dubbed “Fight for $15” on Wednesday, continuing a two-year-long campaign that calls on fast food chains to institute a $15 minimum wage and the right for workers to unionize without reprisal.

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