Beginning with fast-food workers, the Fight for 15 now includes other groups, including childcare workers, home-care aides, airport workers and adjunct professors. The Rev William Barber, head of the North Carolina NAACPSpurred by the Fight for 15, Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles have approved a $15 minimum wage, and more than a dozen states have also approved measures to raise their minimum wage. Trump has taken conflicting positions on the minimum wage, saying variously that it’s too high and too low, saying he opposes any minimum wage and then saying he supports a $10 federal minimum (up from the current $7.25 an hour). He has also said that any minimum wage increases should be done at the state level. “The statement today is that the Fight for 15 and these workers aren’t backing down,” he said.

Source: The Guardian November 29, 2016 22:48 UTC