Fight for $15

Campaigns

• Congress: Stop Dunkin Donuts from STEALING from employees

  I work at Dunkin Donuts – and our bosses steal from us. Not at gunpoint. They skip overtime payments – or simply erase hours from our checks. If I took $20 from the till, they'd fire me – or even call the police. When they take it straight off of our paychecks? Nothing. It's illegal, but it happens every day to thousands of workers across the country. Right now, we have a huge opportunity to end these illegal pay practices. Congress JUST introduced a bill cracking down on employers that steal from workers like me, and they need to hear from us that this is an urgent problem.

  29,870 of 30,000 Signatures

  Created by Barbara Fisher, Fight for $15
• Third-degree burn. McDonald's "treatment"? MUSTARD.

  An expectant mother is told by her manager to treat a bad boiling-water burn with mustard. MUSTARD. A fast-food worker gets third-degree burns from a blisteringly hot, totally unsafe fry lamp. A cook sears the entire palm of his hand on a too-hot grill — and his supervisor makes him work for hours before getting it treated. This is the truth about the serious, painful and often permanent injuries that occur every single day in fast-food kitchens across the country. Dangerous conditions, insane “first-aid treatments” like mustard and butter on burns, and poor management have led to this: Four out of five fast-food workers have been burned, most repeatedly. That’s 2.8 million workers burned this year. Call on the Department of Labor to investigate an industry that is putting millions of fast-food workers’ health and safety at risk EVERY DAY.

  12,006 of 15,000 Signatures

  Created by Brittney Berry
• McDonald's: Pay People Enough To Survive

  The fight for $15 began two years ago, when fast-food workers in New York City went on strike for fair pay. Today, it's an international movement of tens of thousands. We fight for a simple reason: we can't feed our families and pay our rent on minimum wage – we deserve $15 an hour and the right to form a union without retaliation. We'll deliver every signature on this petition directly to McDonald's at their shareholder meeting in late May. Help us reach 1 million signatures by signing right now.

  9,416 of 10,000 Signatures

  Created by Adriana Alvarez, Fight for $15
• Sign the petition to McDonald's

  McDonald’s is the world’s second biggest employer – but they consistently underpay workers, accused even of withholding pay and forcing us to work in illegally dangerous conditions. They’re the world’s biggest food supplier – but they consistently poison public trust by dodging taxes and pushing off costs onto public coffers. It has to stop – NOW. I worked at a McDonald’s in Brazil for a year and a half, and I was fired. I spoke out about how McDonald's exploits not just their employees, but my whole country. Tell McDonald’s: STOP. It’s NOT ok for McDonald’s to abuse public trust, withhold pay, or dodge taxes. The race to the bottom needs to stop now.

  7,765 of 8,000 Signatures

  Created by Lucas Marques, Fight for $15
• McDonald's: End inappropriate child labor at ALL stores

  It’s bad enough that McDonald's refuses to pay its workers a living wage – but in Brazil, it’s even worse. McDonald's stores there were just caught with underage workers doing dangerous jobs. That's right. Children were working the fryer with scalding hot oil or working the grill, and as a result they were found with burns on their bodies. McDonald’s shows once again they don’t have any respect for their workers, and it’s time for that to end. Tell McDonald’s to end ALL inappropriate child labor at its stores around the world.

  6,307 of 7,000 Signatures

  Created by Lucas Marques da Cruz, Fight for $15
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  McDonald’s CEO: Address racism at McDonald's and beyond

  McDonald’s advertises heavily to Black and brown communities and relies on them to make billions. McDonald's makes deals with Black and brown celebrities and tweets about standing with Black lives. They try to co-opt Black and brown cultures and movements to sell burgers, but it's clear what the company says in private. McDonald's: if you really want to stand with Black and brown communities, prove it. Not with words or slogans, but by taking action to lift up Black and brown workers and our communities. McDonald’s Black and brown workers have been speaking out about racial discrimination at the company’s stores nationwide. They say that they have been called “ghetto,” “lazy,” “smelly,” and told they “shouldn’t even exist.” They claim that they have faced targeted retaliation for raising the alarm about racism in the workplace. They have long been paid starvation wages and dismissed in their demands for $15/hr. McDonald’s could be a leader by paying living wages and working with communities to end violence, poverty, and despair. Instead, they just try to shift blame.

  2,511 of 3,000 Signatures

  Created by Kenia Campeano
• Stop Andy Puzder!

  The Senate is about to hold hearings on Donald Trump’s pick for Secretary of Labor -- one of the WORST fast-food CEO’s, Andy Puzder of Hardee’s and Carl’s Jr. I work at Hardee’s under Puzder. I know first-hand -- we MUST fight his nomination. I was paid far too little to live -- just $7.35 per hour -- and see health and safety violations all over the place at my restaurant. Puzder makes more in a day than many employees make in a year -- and he even opposes the minimum wage Now Trump wants to put Puzder in charge of enforcing the very laws that he broke as CEO. We won’t, we can’t, back down.

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  Created by Kymiesha Jones, Fight for $15
• Stop the Fast Food Swindle

  A report came out October 15 showing that 52% of fast food employees’ families are forced to rely on social safety net programs, like Food Stamps or Medicaid, because we’re paid so little. And it costs taxpayers an unthinkable $7 BILLION each year. That means your household forks over about $61 a year so that McDonald’s can rake in $5.5 billion and pay their CEO millions. We don’t want to rely on public assistance -- we would much rather receive an honest day’s pay for an honest day’s (hard!) work. But we have kids to feed, families to support and have no other choice. It’s not okay. And I hope you’ll help us change it today. Tell the top eight fast food chains to pay us $15 an hour so we don’t have to rely on social safety net programs

  50,364 of 75,000 Signatures

  Created by Nancy Salgado, Low Pay Is Not Ok
• Tell Congress: Pass the new $15/hr minimum wage bill!

  Some nights, I skip dinner to feed my kid. I work hard at McDonald’s – but still make far too little to survive. Senator Bernie Sanders and the Democratic leadership in Congress just introduced a federal bill to help me – and millions like me. A bill to raise the minimum wage to $15/hour across the country. When 200 fast-food workers walked off their jobs in New York City in 2012 to demand $15 an hour and union rights, we were called crazy – President Obama had yet to call for even a $9 an hour federal minimum wage. Then, we WON. Twenty-two million Americans have won raises, totaling $62 billion in the pockets of working people since this fight began. Now, Bernie Sanders and Democrats across the board support $15/hour because we did not stop fighting. And we won’t stop fighting. The current federal minimum wage is $7.25/hour, and it’s simply nowhere near enough for workers and our families to live on. Congress MUST pass this bill to provide help for the millions of people around the nation who barely scrape by every single day.

  2,482 of 3,000 Signatures

  Created by Adriana Alvarez, Fight for $15
• Racist McDonald's Bosses FIRE 10 Workers. Not OK.

  I was fired from the McDonald’s where I worked because I don't "fit the profile." What profile? Well, my bosses didn't explain, but they did say things like, "There are too many black people in the store." And: "We need to get the ghetto out of the store." And: "It's dark in here and needs more lightening." More than a dozen of my African American coworkers were fired with me - and many of us are filing suit against McDonald's to stop this kind of racist harassment.

  38,820 of 40,000 Signatures

  Created by Fight for $15