No Wingnut dinner this week, instead come to this event at VCU!!!
Posts Tagged ‘fight for 15’
No Wingnut Dinner this week – instead Panel Discussion at VCU on Fight for $15
Posted: February 23, 2015 in UncategorizedTags: april 15, fight for 15, living wage, naacp, raise up, RVA, VCU
Raise Up Planning Meeting Feb. 2 @ 6pm
Posted: January 28, 2015 in UncategorizedTags: fast food workers, fight for 15, labor, living wage, minimum wage, radical, raise up, raiseup, RVA, seiu, solidarity, south boston, strike, union, Virginia, workera
Here is an update on the Fast food workers / Raise Up campaign:
Hello everyone,
Seven million workers have increased their wages since the fast food worker campaign began two years ago, but that’s not how I know we are winning.
Last year I saw a proposed bill, that would’ve increased VA minimum wage to $8.25 over 3 years (crap, right?), go down without a chance. One year later a proposed bill for $10.10 went down without a prayer There was even talk about a bill for $15.15. So in one year, we went from not passing $ 8.25 to not passing $15.15. I know that sounds sad, but for a life-long Virginian I’m stoked as hell! I know this campaign is working!
2015 is going to be the year for a living-wage! April 15th is going to be our largest mobilization ever and we cannot do it without you. So please join us for a community allies planning meeting next Monday Feb 2nd, 6pm-7pm, at the BCT Local 203 on 231 E Belt Blvd, Richmond Va 23224.
Please contact me with any questions and please feel free to invite any organizations or individuals who are down for the cause.
In solidarity,
Guillermo Zamora
VA Raise Up
703-629-2199
Smash the Fast Food Industry!
Posted: May 30, 2014 in UncategorizedTags: anarchism, animal exploitation, burger king, environmental, fast food, fast food workers, fight for 15, health, helath, mcdonalds, radical, raise up, rasie up for 15, va raise up, vegan
We are recommending this short zine written by our friends, which is a brief analysis of the fast food industry from an intersectional lense. We at the Wingnut have been involved locally with the Fight for $15 Fast Food Workers movement. We support workers because a)some of us are fast food workers or other low paid workers, b) not supporting workers would get us no closer to social change, and c) we have to build movements to have movements, and create relationships with people to build the community that is necessary to transform the world.
But at the end of the day, we are anti-capitalists. Not all of us are vegan, but the environmental impacts, health impacts, animal suffering, exploitation of low income people of color and more mean that the Fast Food Industry is a major negative impact on our communities. Improving the working conditions and raising wages is something that all industries need and all workers deserve. However, the Fast Food Industry is specifically so rotten, so toxic, that changes to labor will never be enough.
We will continue to support the Fight for $15 and other worker’s movements, but we will also always keep the bigger picture in mind. Low wages and bad working conditions are just a symptom of the rotten exploitative attitude of the fast food industry. We need to attack the roots.
Check out the zine, read more about it, and help us create a vision for a world without Fast Food, and where our communities are healthy and sustainable!
https://archive.org/details/SmashTheFastFoodIndustry
WARZONE DISTRO/The Feral Space
xtheferalspacex@riseup.net
April 3rd Wage Theft Action
Posted: March 27, 2014 in UncategorizedTags: fast food, fast food workers, fastfood workers, fight for 15, minimum wage, protest, radical, raise up, raise up for 15, right to work, RVA, seiu, union, wage theft, worker's rights, workers
This will be the biggest action we do till the next strike, so a huge turnout would do a lot to galvanize the workers and give us a lot of momentum to build up on. So please bring your members, friends, coworkers and family.
Raise Up for the South! Press Conference in Richmond
Posted: March 18, 2014 in UncategorizedTags: ;long john silvers, benefits, equality, fast food wage theft, fight for 15, fight for fifteen, fight for fiteen, food industry, food service workers, ibew, IWW, kfc, living wage, mcdonalds, minimum wage, organize, organized workers, raise up, respect, right to work, robbed on the job, RVA, seiu, solidarity, taco bell, ufcw, union, union building, unionize, va raise up, vcu living wage, wage theft, wagetheft, wingnut anarchist collective, workers
Here are some photos from today’s Raise Up! press conference, which was held at the McDonald’s at E. Broad and 18th.
The rain and the cold didn’t stop fast food workers, or supporting unions and organizations from showing up to take a stand against wage theft and abuse at work. Fast food workers demand respect, $15 an hour, an end to wage theft and more!
If you are a fast food worker who has experienced Wage Theft in the Richmond area, call 804 495 1439 to report it! Or check out www.robbedonthejob.org
Next time hopefully the weather will treat us better and we will see more faces out to support Fast Food Workers! Unionizing in the South is hard, and vitally important. Support Southern workers, support Fast Food Workers! Everyone deserves a Living Wage!
More info: http://management.fortune.cnn.com/2014/03/14/mcdonalds-wage-theft-suits-just-the-tip-of-the-iceberg/
BREAKING: MCDONALDS WORKERS IN 3 STATES COME FORWARD TO FILE WAGE THEFT LAWSUITS AGAINST THE COMPANY
http://www.salon.com/2014/03/13/breaking_mcdonalds_workers_mount_class_action_suits_in_three_states/
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