Search results for ‘fight for $15’


  • Movement

    Fight for $15 (Minimum Wage)

    The “Fight for $15” is a corporate campaign principally orchestrated and funded by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) which seeks to unionize the quick-service franchise restaurant industry and raise the federal minimum wage by more than double to $15 per hour, using the slogan “$15 and a union.”
  • Non-profit

    Fight Back Fund

    The Fight Back Fund is a left-of-center pro-labor union organization affiliated with and operated by the International Union of Operating Engineers (IUOE) Local 150, the labor union that represents construction workers in the Chicago area. The organization acts as a lobbying arm for the union to oppose right-to-work laws
  • Non-profit

    Missouri Workers Center

    The Missouri Workers Center (MWC) is a labor union-affiliated advocacy group that promotes left-of-center public policy in Missouri. 90 It engages in community and labor organizing, public advocacy, voter registration, and
  • Non-profit

    Fair Worker Center (FWC)

    The Fair Work Center (FWC) is a labor union-aligned worker center based in Seattle, Washington. 103 It was founded by David Rolf, the founding president of SEIU 775, and often functions as
  • Non-profit

    Western North Carolina Workers Center (WNCWC)

    The Western North Carolina Workers Center (WNCWC) is a labor union-aligned worker center that focuses on organizing Latino workers in and around Asheville, North Carolina.  143 It is a participant
  • Other Group

    Arizona Jobs with Justice

    Arizona Jobs with Justice is the Arizona-based chapter of the left-of-center advocacy group Jobs with Justice, a labor union-aligned organizing group that hosts protests and supports union organizing activities in support of left-of-center policy priorities. Arizona Jobs with Justice has opposed manufacturing facility construction in Arizona, including opposition to
  • Other Group

    Justice for Janitors

    Justice for Janitors is a labor organizing campaign operated by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) which claims to represent more than 150,000 janitors and similar employees across the United States.
  • Non-profit

    Jews for Racial and Economic Justice Action (JFREJ Action)

    Jews for Racial and Economic Justice Action (JFREJ Action) is a left-of-center political activist organization created in 2020 by the left-wing advocacy group Jews for Racial and Economic Justice (also known as JFREJ Community.)
  • Other Group

    New England Jewish Labor Committee

    The New England Jewish Labor Committee is a regional subsidiary of the Jewish Labor Committee, a left-of-center, pro-labor union affinity group promoting the Jewish community within the larger labor movement. 212 Background
  • Non-profit

    Climate Organizing Hub (COH)

    The Climate Organizing Hub (COH) is an environmental activist group that pushes for divestment from conventional energy companies. COH claims that “abolishing the fossil fuel industry is the main way to meaningfully address climate change.”
  • For-profit

    Orchestra

    Orchestra, formerly BerlinRosen Holdings, is a portfolio company that owns several Democratic consulting firms. The company is owned by O2 Investment Partners, a private equity firm that specializes in niche industries. As of 2025, Orchestra owns eight left-of-center and Democratic communications and political consulting firms in the United States and
  • Non-profit

    Black Workers for Justice (BWFJ)

    Black Workers for Justice (BWFJ) is an activist organization that supports Black liberation, Black/Brown unity, and labor organizing. It was involved in the founding of the Labor Party and was an affiliate of the Black Radical Congress.
  • Person

    Darrick Hamilton

    Darrick Hamilton is the Henry Cohen professor of economics and urban policy at The New School and the founding director of the Institute on Race, Power, and Political Economy. 270 Hamilton is an
  • Non-profit

    Asian Immigrant Women Advocates (AIWA)

    Asian Immigrant Women Advocates (AIWA) is a community organization in the San Francisco Bay Area that organizes and trains immigrant women and students of Asian and other origins to engage in left-of-center social and political advocacy, as well as encourage union organizing in workplaces.
  • Other Group

    Labor and Employment Action Project (LEAP)

    The Labor and Employment Action Project (LEAP) at Harvard Law School is a student-run organization at Harvard University that promotes the unionization of Harvard’s workforce and works to advance pro-union policies at the university and across the country. Background The Labor and Employment Action Project at Harvard Law School
  • Non-profit

    DC Jobs with Justice (DCJWJ)

    DC Jobs with Justice (DCJWJ) is the Washington, D.C. chapter of Jobs with Justice, a national coalition of worker centers and advocacy groups that promotes labor union policy priorities and perspectives across the country.
  • Labor Union

    Union of Southern Service Workers (USSW)

    Union of Southern Service Workers (USSW) is a cross-industry service-sector labor union primarily located in located in the American South. 349 USSW formed in November 2022
  • Non-profit

    Missouri Jobs With Justice Voter Action

    Missouri Jobs With Justice Voter Action is a left-of-center advocacy and voter mobilization organization. It is affiliated with  , the state affiliate of the national Jobs With Justice left-of-center and labor-union-aligned activist coalition.  
  • Non-profit

    Action Now

    Action Now is a Chicago-based left-wing activist organization that promotes the interests of labor unions, particularly the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). It was created in 2007 when leaders, staff and supporters of ACORN Chicago left the scandal-plagued, left-wing activist national group, which would fold in 2010.
  • For-profit

    617 Media Group LLC

    617MediaGroup is a left-of-center communications firm with headquarters in Waltham, Massachusetts. Its clients include labor unions, Democratic and other left-progressive political candidates, and left-of-center advocacy organizations. Senior leadership at 617MediaGroup all have prior work experience with progressive organizations, unions, or Democratic political figures. Jeff Hall, founder and president, was director