Fight for $15 Cleveland

We are excited to announce our endorsement of Justin Bibb for Mayor of Cleveland!

Don’t be fooled by Kevin Kelly. When someone shows you who they are, believe them. Actions speak louder than words.

Cleveland minimum wage debate heats up, SEIU calls for council president's job The Service Employees International Union has sponsored a mobile billboard calling for the public to "fire" Cleveland City Council President Kevin Kelley for his opposition to the SEIU's initiative to set the city's minimum wage at $15 an hour.

No one who works should have to make impossible decisions like “should I pay rent or buy groceries.” Companies like McDonald's can pay $15/hr to ALL their workers.

When people talk about "unskilled labor," it has more to do with their own biases than the skill and dignity of our work.

All labor requires skill and should be paid fairly.

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Low Pay Fuels Mental Health Worker Shortage In Cleveland Area Nearly all Cuyahoga County community behavioral health providers have job openings.

Americans overwhelmingly support raising the minimum wage to $15. Our politicians need to do their job by getting it done. It’s time to .

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While millions of people faced layoffs and struggled to make ends meet, many of the companies hit hardest during the pandemic showered their executives with riches.

Here are the highest-paid chief executives of 2020: https://nyti.ms/32KHeDE

"The result is a system where state lawmakers accept millions of dollars for their campaigns from nursing homes, and then determine how much to pay individual homes."

Nursing homes spent at least $6 million on Ohio politics in five years The result is a system where state lawmakers accept millions of dollars for their campaigns from nursing homes, and then determine how much to pay individual homes.

“Whatever our race, background, or zip code, we all want to move through our communities without fearing for our lives or our loved ones. But time and again, we have witnessed evidence of horrors committed against Black people by police in cities and on back roads, in living rooms and on neighborhood streets, in the dark of night and the light of day.”

“Yesterday was a day to celebrate accountability for the murder of George Floyd but it was not a day to celebrate complete justice. Complete justice would mean that George Floyd would still be alive today. Justice would mean Ma’khia Bryant would be alive today. Justice would mean that Tamir Rice, Henry Green, Tyre King, Andre Hill, Casey Goodson, Jr, and all the lives taken by the very people who have sworn an oath to protect our communities,” – President Becky Williams