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November 10th, 2015 
Awake Goy 
Print FriendlyNationwide Walkout to Culminate in 500-City Protest with Fast-Food, Home Care, Child Care Workers Vowing to Take Fight for $15, Union Rights to the Ballot Box in 2016
Following Strikes and Protests, Underpaid Workers to March on the GOP Debate at the Milwaukee Theatre
Nationwide – Fast-food workers will wage their biggest-ever strike Tuesday – one year from Election Day – with walkouts hitting a record 270 cities from Detroit to Denver. The strikes will culminate in protests in 500 cities, where fast-food, home care, child care, and other underpaid workers will amass outside city halls—local symbols of political power— to demand that elected leaders nationwide stand up for $15/hr and union rights.
The strikes and protests come as underpaid workers nationwide vow to take their Fight for $15 and union rights to the ballot box in 2016 to show candidates of all political stripes that the nearly 64 million Americans paid less than $15 are a voting bloc that can no longer be ignored.
In addition to the strikes and city hall protests, auto parts workers, farmworkers, grocery clerks, FedEx drivers, nursing home workers and others will show their support for the Fight for $15 at rallies planned for 1,000 cities across the country, sending a message to candidates that higher pay and union rights are urgent issues for our country that need to be addressed now. In Milwaukee, following the strikes and city hall protest, members of Fight for $15 WI will march on the Republican debate at the Milwaukee Theatre.
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Source Article from https://www.popularresistance.org/one-year-from-election-fast-food-workers-wage-biggest-ever-strike/
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