Minimum Wage

Democrats Never Cared About Minimum Wage
Last night, the Senate Parliamentarian ruled that a $15 minimum wage cannot be passed with a simple majority. Democrats have said that they will not challenge her ruling, making it clear that they will always prioritize the interests of big business over workers.
Olivia Wood
February 26, 2021The Price of Wonderland: Homeless Disney Worker Dies in Car
A former Disney employee urges workers to fight for their rights and remember her co-worker Yeweinisht Mesfin who died homeless in her car.
Vanessa Munoz
March 4, 2018What the Fourth of July Means to a (Wage) Slave
Left Voice editor and contributor reflects on the 'Farce' of July.
Julia Wallace
July 4, 2016The Left and the Working Class: is it possible to reconstruct the strategic dialogue?
The organizing taking place among precarious sectors of the U.S. working class is generating accommodations on the part of a discredited union bureaucracy. For the first time in decades, left groups are part of the debate.
Celeste Murillo
August 11, 2015Victory in the fight for $15 in New York
An advisory board has recommended that New York State raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour for fast-food workers. The national movement for $15 has recently won important fights in some cities and gained nationwide momentum. However there remain some important unresolved questions about the potential of this movement.
Juan C
July 28, 2015Left Voice: Soon!
The Left Voice is a newly launched project aimed at bringing you daily news, analysis and opinion from a socialist left perspective. The Left Voice is part of the La Izquierda Diario news network, which has editions in Argentina, Mexico, Brazil, France, and Chile.
Left Voice
July 13, 2015What the Fourth of July Means to a (Wage) Slave
Today we aren’t slaves but we still aren’t free. Oppression still remains daily reality.
Left Voice
July 4, 2015LA union bureaucracy pushes for a worse deal for its union members
For the past several years, the fast food workers’ fight for a $15 minimum wage has expanded.
Julia Wallace
June 8, 2015