Search results for ‘fight for $15’


  • Labor Union

    1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East (UHE)

    1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East (UHE; sometimes styled SEIU Local 1199 or just 1199) is a large local union of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) representing employees of hospitals throughout the northeast United States. The union wields a great deal of political power in New York State and
  • Non-profit

    Organize Florida

    Organize Florida was an Orlando-based tax-exempt social welfare organization. It trained community activists and regularly organized protests in the Central Florida and Tampa Bay areas to advance social, economic, and environmentally left-of-center agendas throughout the influential Tampa-Orlando “I-4 corridor.” It had satellite offices in Tampa and Kissimmee, and frequently coordinated
  • Other Group

    Occupy Wall Street

    Occupy Wall Street (OWS) was a protest demonstration that took place in lower Manhattan, from September 17 through November 15, 2011.102 The New York “occupation,”
  • Person

    Mary Kay Henry

    Mary Kay Henry serves as the international president of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). Henry worked for the union almost continuously since 1979, 159 holding 18 different
  • Government Agency

    National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)

    Also see National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) (Legislation) The National Labor Relations Board is a federal government agency consisting of a five-member Board appointed by the President with (by convention) three members of the President’s party and two members of the opposition party and a nominally independent General Counsel
  • For-profit

    BerlinRosen

    BerlinRosen (also styled Berlin Rosen) is a for-profit public relations and campaign communications consulting firm headquartered in New York City that works for Democratic campaigns, progressive nonprofit organizations, and labor unions, with a focus on New York. Founded in 2005 by former Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now
  • Non-profit

    New York Communities for Change (NYCC)

    New York Communities for Change (NYCC) is a New York City-based labor and community organizing group. NYCC is a key agitation force behind the Service Employees International Union’s (SEIU) “Fight for $15” union organizing efforts, and has received over $7 million from SEIU and its local unions alone
  • Non-profit

    Working Families Power

    Working Families Power, previously known as the Working Families Organization (WFO), is the 501(c)(4) affiliate of the Working Families Party, a union-funded and union-aligned far-left political party330 with power centers in traditionally hard-left localities and
  • Other Group

    The Patriotic Millionaires

    The Patriotic Millionaires is a group of Americans who earn more than $1 million per year and advocate for left-wing economic policies. They were organized by longtime Democratic and left-wing strategist Erica Payne with help from trial lawyer and major Democratic donor Guy Saperstein in 2010, who recruited
  • Non-profit

    USAction

    Note: USAction is no longer in operation and merged to form People’s Action in 2016 USAction was a left-of-center advocacy nonprofit based in Washington, D.C. The group was created by activist Heather Booth in 1999 as a successor to the scandal-ridden consumer advocacy group Citizen Action, which
  • Non-profit

    Restaurant Opportunities Centers United (ROC)

    Restaurant Opportunities Centers United (ROC or ROC-United) is one of the nation’s most prominent “worker centers,” labor-union-like organizations backed by union organizing know-how and left-of-center foundation funding. An outgrowth of a mutual-aid organization for the surviving unionized employees of the Windows on the World restaurant destroyed in the September 11th
  • Labor Union

    Service Employees International Union (SEIU)

    The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is one of America’s largest, most controversial, and most politically involved labor unions. The SEIU, which represents building services employees, nurses, other healthcare workers, and public employees, is noted for its close ties to the broader left-of-center movement, perhaps most notably the controversial now-defunct
  • Non-profit

    Center for Popular Democracy (CPD)

    The Center for Popular Democracy (CPD), also known as Popular Democracy, is a left-of-center 501(c)(3) organization involved in voter mobilization and policy development. The CPD’s stated mission is “to create equity, opportunity and a dynamic democracy in partnership with high-impact base-building organizations, organizing alliances, and progressive unions.” CPD has opposed
  • Non-profit

    Step Up for Action

    Step Up for Action is a lobbying and advocacy organization that emphasizes voter engagement, policy advocacy, and an “education and economic justice program” in New Orleans, Louisiana. 642 Step
  • Non-profit

    Pennsylvania Policy Center (Penn Policy)

    Pennsylvania Policy Center, also known as Penn Policy, is a research and policy advocacy organization that was a former project of labor-union-aligned left-of-center policy group Keystone Research Center. 650 Several members of Penn
  • Other Group

    Tax Fairness for Virginia

    Tax Fairness for Virginia is a coalition run by the Commonwealth Institute for Fiscal Analysis and New Virginia Majority.
  • Non-profit

    El Paso Community Foundation

    The El Paso Community Foundation, a grantmaking organization, was founded in 1977 and serves the El Paso, Texas area. 675 The foundation’s efforts focus on education and supporting families, but it has
  • Person

    Nihad Awad

    Nihad Awad is a co-founder and the national executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the largest Muslim civil rights advocacy organization in the United States. 690 Before co-founding CAIR,
  • Non-profit

    Clean Energy Fund of Texas

    The Clean Energy Fund of Texas is a self-described “green energy” bank in Texas that focuses on providing loans and financial services to promote weather-dependent energy in racial minority communities. 719
  • Other Group

    Veterans for American Ideals (VFAI)

    Veterans for American Ideals (VFAI) is a coalition of veterans established by left-of-center activist organization Human Rights First. 729 It organizes veteran advocacy campaigns supporting refugees and illegal immigrants, inclusive military