Last Sunday, Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton has endorsed the Service Employees International Union’s fight to raise fast food workers’ wages to $15 an hour.
via the Washington Post:
In one of the most explicitly union-friendly speeches of her young presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton called in to a convention of low-wage workers Sunday morning to deliver a message of support and solidarity.
“All of you should not have to march in the streets to get a living wage, but thank you for marching in the streets to get that living wage,” she said. “We need you out there leading the fight against those who would rip away Americans’ right to organize, to collective bargaining, to fair pay.”
Clinton’s new campaign has carried a populist tone throughout, but this speech — before a ballroom full of mostly young, African American workers from across the country — virtually echoed the language that the Service Employees International Union has used in its campaign for a $15 minimum wage…
Oddly enough, for a candidate whose campaign slogan is “I want to be your champion,” Mrs. Clinton stayed silent on the biggest issue facing the union movement today, the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
