Category Archives: Fight for 15

$15 Minimum Wage, Ending Local Preemption Get Hearing in State Senate

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(APN) ATLANTA — A packed room spilled out into the hallway during a hearing on several minimum wage bills Thursday, February 11, 2016.   “We got an extensive list of folks signed up… If [the committee] drop[s] below six, we can’t do anything.  So just keep that in mind,” Chairmen Charlie Bethel (R – Dalton) reiterated multiple times during the […]

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One Thousand Atlantans Rally for $15 Minimum Wage

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By Julian Plowden, Special to The Atlanta Progressive News   (APN) ATLANTA — An estimated one thousand people, most of whom represented minimum and low wage workers, rallied outside of local Atlanta McDonald’s, Burger King, and Walmart businesses on Wednesday, April 15, 2015.   This protest was a joint action in a wave of other protests happening nationwide on the […]

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