Via Media Trackers:
Fast-food customers in as many as 200 American cities who encounter protesters today demanding a federal minimum wage increase to $15 per hour may want to know who, exactly, is driving the “Fight For 15″ campaign.
Fight For 15, operating out of Chicago, is being heavily promoted by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) — especially Chicago-based SEIU Local 1. As Watchdog.org reported on December 3, the campaign is run by Restaurant Opportunities Center (ROC), a union front group backed chiefly by SEIU.
When Fight For 15 held similar strikes last August, LaborUnionReport.com explained that Fight For 15 is actually just an SEIU organizing ploy.
Following are 15 of the solidarity-minded economics gurus behind calls for a federally-enforced $15 minimum wage as a means of creating jobs, prosperity, and “economic justice.”
Also listed below is the minimum wage that would be necessary for true equality between each union boss and low-skill workers, based on a 40-hour work week. Annual pay figures are from the unions’ fiscal year 2012 filings with the U.S. Department of Labor; photos are from SEIU.