Although I don't like the pro-hierarchy bias from this AFL-CIO labor official, he sees a bigger picture of several current political movements coming together in response to police brutality and killings, growing inequality, and low-wages.
...even though $15 an hour represents a doubling of the pitiful federal minimum wage, all the speakers recognized it was only the beginning.
The common thread of the newly emerging movements like “Black Lives Matter,” “OUR Walmart” and “Fight for $15,” UNITE-HERE Local 2 Food Service Director Anand Singh told me, is that all our particular social concerns “come together by fighting against economic inequality, which is the next step enabling working people to make some gains.”