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Non-profit
One Fair Wage (OFW) is a left-of-center organization that advocates for a full minimum wage for workers receiving tips as a major portion of their income, such as restaurant service workers, ride-share drivers, and food delivery drivers.
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Non-profit
Economic Security Project Action is a center-left advocacy group that seeks to to dramatically expand the size and scope of federal programs that provide cash payments to low-income Americans, with the ultimate goal of massively expanding the federal welfare state by implementing a form of Universal Basic Income or “unconditional
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Political Party/527
U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), a self-described “democratic socialist,” unsuccessfully contested the 2016 Democratic Party presidential primary against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
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Person
Jennifer Epps-Addison is one of four co-executive directors and the president of the Center for Popular Democracy and its affiliated Center for Popular Democracy Action Fund, organizing and political pressure groups for which she leads left-wing ethnic-interest campaigns.
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Labor Union
The Workers Organizing Committee of Chicago (WOCC) is a labor union that seeks to organize fast food workers and advocates for a $15 minimum wage as part of the “Fight for $15” movement. Connections to SEUI HCII For more information, see SEIU Healthcare Indiana and Illinois (Labor Union)
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Labor Union
Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 221 is an affiliate of the controversial SEIU labor union representing employees in San Diego and Imperial Counties, California. SEIU Local 221 claims to represent Head Start employees, school employees, and court reporters, along with other county government employees.
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For-profit
The Ardleigh Group is a Washington D.C.-based political canvassing organization that works with Democratic Party candidates and left-of-center groups. The Ardleigh Group specializes in “get out the vote” tactics and other canvassing strategies. It is a part of a network of organizations tied to political consultant Matt Schneider. Schneider’s firm,
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Labor Union
East Bay Organizing Committee was the principal organization directing activity related to the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) “Fight for $15” unionization and minimum wage campaign in Oakland, California. It received its principal financial support from the national SEIU. The organization is currently defunct; it and the other
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Labor Union
SEIU Healthcare Illinois & Indiana (SEIU HCII) was formed in 2008 as a merger of three SEIU-affiliated local unions, one of them being Local 880. Local 880 was created by the ACORN-funded United Labor Unions under ACORN-trained organizer Keith Kelleher as a campaign to unionize Illinois home care
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Person
Adam Ruben is a political consultant and the principal consultant for Bigify, a Washington, D.C.-based consultancy whose clients include NARAL Pro-Choice America, the Fight for $15, Voter Participation Center, and Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s (D-Massachusetts) presidential campaign. Ruben formerly worked as political and field director for
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Non-profit
East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy (EBASE) is a left-of-center organizing and policy organization based in Oakland, California. It is a member of the Economic Analysis and Research Network, a coalition of left-wing policy organizations created by the labor-union-aligned Economic Policy Institute. These organizations advocate for economic
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Non-profit
Fast Food Justice is a left-wing organization that works to promote higher wages for fast food workers and left-wing positions other issues such as immigration, housing, and police-community relations. The group is headquartered and primarily active in New York City. It has reportedly received $1.2 million in contributions from
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Labor Union
The California Labor Federation (CLF) is a labor union in California associated with the American Federation of Labor–Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO). The Federation includes more than 1,200 member unions which claim to represent over 2.1 million California workers.
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Labor Union
The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 1107 is an affiliate of the controversial SEIU labor union, claiming to represent more than 9,000 workers in Nevada. SEIU Local 1107 represents hospital, and public service employees. 1
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Person
Ai-jen Poo is a left-of-center labor organizer and executive director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA). Poo is closely aligned with a range of left-of-center foundations and organizing groups, sitting on the advisory boards of MoveOn.org, MomsRising, and the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy.
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Other Group
The Labor Coalition for Community Action (LCCA) was founded in 2000 to be the umbrella organization for AFL-CIO constituency groups.
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Other Group
Good Jobs Nation is a union-backed left-of-center organization that advocates for a $15 minimum wage1 and higher pay for federal contractors.
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Labor Union
Also see Fast Food Workers Committee (Labor Union) The National Fast Food Workers’ Union (NFFWU) was established by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) shortly to supersede the Fast Food Workers Committee as the lead organizing entity for the unionization arm of the national union’s “Fight
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Non-profit
Working Washington is a labor-union-aligned worker center which advocates for strict labor and employment regulations in the state of Washington and across the United States. 1 Working Washington is closely tied to the controversial
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Labor Union
SEIU 775NW (also styled SEIU 775 or SEIU Local 775) is the northwestern local branch of the national Service Employees International Union (SEIU) that represents home healthcare providers, nursing home employees, and adult day health care workers, mainly in Washington State and Montana.
