On the latest OnTheIssuesPod, the president of the 2 million member Service Employees International Union discusses the FightFor15:
, the demand for care in that area just can’t be overstated. And certainly, what COVID has revealed are underlying infrastructural and institutional inequalities in our society.
And we are looking to back those women, and help them make a demand on how those funds turn poverty jobs into living-wage jobs, and the ability of those women to have a permanent organization where they can advocate for themselves, their families, and the people that they serve.
Well, I think it means for the 64 million people, again, overwhelmingly women, that do service and care work, in fast food, in retail, in childcare, in elder care, in the biggest part of the U.S. economy, that once and for all, we can make this work, the foundation of the most multiracial working class, whose children will have economic mobility in the next generation.
I’m going to get to our silver-lining question, which our audience really appreciates, but before I go there, and we’ve talked about this a bit in the show, but how has the pandemic made the need for a livable minimum wage particularly urgent?I think the nation is awakening to how essential workers exercising their power in powerful ways by striking, forming unions and standing up to bad bosses has really created a exclamation point on the level of racial and economic inequality that existed...
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