Hillary Clinton endorses fight for a $15 minimum wage

[OKNancy]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/06/07/hillary-clinton-sounds-populist-note-at-fast-food-workers-convention/

In one of the most explicitly union-friendly speeches of her young presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton called in to a convention of low-wage workers Sunday morning to deliver a message of support and solidarity.

"All of you should not have to march in the streets to get a living wage, but thank you for marching in the streets to get that living wage, but thank you for marching in the streets to get that living wage," she said. "We need you out there leading the fight against those who would rip away Americans’ right to organize, to collective bargaining, to fair pay."

Clinton's new campaign has carried a populist tone throughout, but this speech -- before a ballroom full of mostly young, African American workers from across the country -- virtually echoed the language that the Service Employees International Union has used in its campaign for a $15 minimum wage. Along with the fast food workers who have been at the core of scattered protests over the past could of years, Clinton's short speech called out home care workers and adjunct professors, who make up a substantial part of the SEIU's membership base and have joined in the call for higher wages.

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For anyone reading who is uninformed: this is not a new position for Hillary Clinton.
She has fought for increases many times, especially in her Senate career.

[shenmue]

1. Yes!

[MarianJack]

2. Good for Hillary, AKA...

...the next POTUS!

PEACE!

[hrmjustin]

3. K&R!

[Thinkingabout]

4. Our DNC Congressional members should keep this bill in motion until it is passed.

This would be the starting point.

[MineralMan]

5. Not unexpected.

Good for her!

[dickthegrouch]

6. I worry about what happens to

People who've spent 10 years at a retailer and are currently earning less than $15/hour.

I'm not saying my partner doesn't deserve far more than that, but his employer clearly doesn't think so, currently. Neither is raising the minimum an excuse to increase loyal, excellent staff only to the new minimum. Especially since he's been told once that he earns "almost double the minimum"! I'm really looking forward to him getting almost double the minimum again

Each of his last 4 year's W2's have showed an actively declining income. The Bosses keep saying "we'll take of you" and then they quit.

Retail sucks!!!!

[Agschmid]

7. Buzzfeed link to the same story, some more pictures.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/coralewis/hillary-clinton-tells-fight-for-15-we-need-you#.pijd2ZnWV2

[okasha]

8. Most people aren't aware of how badly adjuncts get screwn.

My first year of college teaching, there was an adjunct in the department who carried a full class load but made less than a third of what I did as a tenure-track new hire. No bennies, either. Shameful!