On April 15, perhaps as you’re reading these words, working people in 200 American cities will rally for a $15 base wage and the right to form a union. Solidarity demonstrations are planned in more than 30 cities on six continents, and have already taken place in Switzerland, the Philippines, South Korea, New Zealand, and Japan.
The “fight for $15” matters – because the lives of working people matter, and because the success of this effort will help strengthen the American economy for everyone.
But the significance of April 15’s action runs even deeper than that.
The Worker Vanishes
There were times in recent history when observers of our political and economic debates might have been forgiven for thinking that America’s working men and women – the teeming millions who built this country and were the engines of its economy during its most prosperous years – had vanished from the face of the earth.