Minimum wage Fight for $15 movement plans fast-food workers' strike across south Organization marks 50th anniversary of Memphis sanitation workers’ strike as it joins Poor People’s Campaign to honor Martin Luther King The Rev William Barber II stands outside the National Civil Rights Museum following a march by Fight for $15 supporters last year. Two ministers, Barber and Liz Theoharis, are heading the new effort, officially called “the Poor People’s Campaign: a National Call for Moral Revival”. “We need a re-imagination and resurrection of why Dr King and so many others went to Memphis and joined in the Poor People’s Campaign. The Fight for $15, meanwhile, is calling on fast-food workers to rally in cities outside the south. “For the Fight for $15 to join with the Poor People’s Campaign makes our network broader and more powerful,” Wise said.

Source: The Guardian February 01, 2018 10:52 UTC