Chicago Labor Movement
Below are several of Bob’s albums related to the Chicago Labor Movement.
Chicago Fight for $15 goes to Milwaukee
February 11, 2016: Chicago Fight for $15 joined their brothers and sisters in Milwaukee to bring a message to the Democratic Party debate: a $15 minimum wage, union rights, justice for immigrants & racial equity. After picketing in front of the building where the debate was going on, Fight for $15 marched to the student union building nearby and led a spirited rally inside.
Chicago Fight for $15 joined their brothers and sisters in Milwaukee to bring a message to the Democratic Party debate: a $15 minimum wage, union rights, justice for immigrants & racial equality.
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Fight for $15 in 2016
Fight for $15 paid a visit to McDonalds HQ to remind its Board to start respecting MacDonald workers. More recently it has carried the battle for a living wage to the Chicago suburbs with actions in Oak Park IL.
Fight for $15 has been going to both Democratic Party and Republican Party debates with a simple message: a $15 minimum wage, union rights, justice for immigrants and racial equality.
July 5, 2016: Fight for $15 supporters filled the Oak Park Village Hall demanding a $15 an hour minimum wage in the town. Instead the Village Board agreed to consider a much more limited proposal that would offer $12 an hour, but only to Village employees and certain workers of village contractors and grantees.
May 25, 2016: A rainstorm of Biblical proportions came down on a large Fight for $15 demonstration at the McDonalds Corporation HQ in Oak Brook IL USA, Later about 100 people camped out overnight in tents near the McDonalds HQ to protest poverty wages and other employment abuses.
February 11, 2016: Chicago Fight for $15 joined their brothers and sisters in Milwaukee to bring a message to the Democratic Party debate: a $15 minimum wage, union rights, justice for immigrants & racial equality. The fundraiser was to help re-establish the Young Patriot Organization in the 21st Century. The Young Patriots were a group of poor southern migrants in 1960's Chicago who were part of a revolutionary alliance with the Young Lords Organization (a Puerto Rican group) and the Black Panther Party (a Black organization). Together they formed the original Rainbow Coalition. Soon afterward Rising Up Angry, a working class white Chicago organization also joined.
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Solidarity with New York Fight for $15
July 21, 2015: Fight for $15 in Chicago is celebrating the NY $15 minimum wage victory
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McDonalds Protest: May 2015
May 18, 2015: Marching on the McDonalds Corporate HQ in Oak Brook IL. Fight for $15! Thousands of workers and their allies marched on the McDonalds headquarters in Oak Brook IL demanding $15 and a union. McDonalds was holding its annual shareholders meeting. Fearing bad publicity, the company barred the media from attending.
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Fight for $15 2016: Organizing in Chicago suburbs
Fight for $15 comes to Oak Park IL. Community residents came out to support suburban low wage workers on April 15 2015, September 29 2015 and May 2 2016.
May 2, 2016: Poverty has been skyrocketing in the suburbs along with the proliferation of low wage jobs.A living standard wage for one adult with one child in Cook County is $23.53/hour? Whether you’re a single person without kids or a family of 6, everyone deserves a fair wage.
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Fight For $15, 2015: Low wage workers unite
April 14, 2015: Low wage workers unite to organize for a better Chicago.
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McDonalds Shareholder Action
May 21 2014: McDonalds workers & allies marched on the McDonalds HQ in Oak Brook IL There were over 100 arrests. Workers were protesting against the low wages and poor working conditions that McDonalds imposes upon them.
Fight for $15 in Chicago 2014
May 13, 2014: Part of a global protest against the McDonalds Corporation for its substandard labor practices
Labor Notes Conference 2014
April 1, 2014: A gathering of labor militants from a wide variety of situations but who unshakeable in their solidarity with the working class movement.
Black Friday Chicagoland!
Chicagoans rallied at two Chicago Walmarts to support Walmart strikers in their quest for better wages and working conditions. We also wanted to remind Walmart that the National Labor Relations Board is prosecuting them for retaliating against Walmart workers who speak out. Time to stop retaliating and start negotiating.
November 29, 2013: Chicagoans rallied at 2 different Walmarts to protest the company's employment policies. There were arrests for blocking the street in front of one store.
Fight for $15 - 2013 to 2014
Chicago low wage workers and their allies demand a living wage.
March 11, 014: Protesting verbal abuse at McDonalds on March 8 2014
January 8, 2014: Fired Snarf's sandwich workers continue the struggle with a press conference on Jan 8 2014. Snarf's management fired the entire staff from their North Side Chicago location just before Christmas. This action is believed to be in retaliation for their participation in the Fight for $15 campaign.
December 5, 2013: Fight for $15 in Chicago:Workers on strike for justice are joined by supporters
August 28,2013: Fight for $15
July 31, 2013: Along with their many allies, low wage workers walked off their jobs to march for justice on August 1 2013.
Walmart: The Fight for Justice
October 9, 2012: Walmart warehouse steal our wages for low prices. Walmart: No More Temps. You can’t be a “temp” forever. Walmart = Associate Abuse. Pay is enough to feed our families: $!7 billion annually, Walmart can do it.
National Day of Action: Fight for $15 & Black Lives Matter
On November 10 2015, thousands of underpaid working people throughout the country stood together to demand racial and economic justice for all. They called on rich corporations to pay their fair share and to respect our right to form unions without retaliation.
Here in Chicago Fight for $15 joined with Black Lives Matter and held a protest at a South Side McDonalds for economic justice and then marched to Chicago Police HQ to demand an end to police violence. Later that afternoon there was a mass rally at the State Office building in downtown Chicago.
People across the country stood up with fast-food workers, child care, home care, airport worker, adjunct professors, students, and all 64 million underpaid workers making less than $15, because it’s TIME for $15. Together, we can continue work to end racism and oppression & fight for work that is good for families in every community.
Raising the minimum wage
June 9, 2014: City of Chicago sponsored hearings to raise the minimum wage in Chicago
