Chicago progressive mayoral candidate Jesus “Chuy” Garcia is working and rallying with the Fight for 15 movement, the Chicago Teachers Union, and the Service Employees International Union for a $15 minimum wage.
They have just taken their fight to the school board to win a $15 minimum wage for the employees who work for companies that have subcontracted to do school board work, especially janitorial work.
Mayoral candidate Jesus “Chuy” Garcia and the unions and activists rallied outside the
Chicago school board on March 25.
Garcia is running against incumbent centrist, pro-corporate Democrat Rahm Emanuel who has become very unpopular with many unions and progressives in his first term in office.
Pro-corporate Democrats are destroying our ability to move forward on an economic justice agenda.
This agenda includes:
• Raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour
• Protecting, restoring, and creating the right to organize and bargain collectively for all workers
• Stopping privatization
• Government investment in infrastructure repair and green energy development
Certainly, almost any Democrat is much better than the wacky, dangerously right-wing, racist, sexist, homophobic Republican Party.
But we need a broad agenda to improve the quality of life and standard of living of average Americans. We also have to narrow the horrendous gap between the rich and the rest of us.
Mayoral candidate Garcia has a long and rich history of being an elected leader who stood up for economic and social justice. The labor movement, the people he has represented in Little Village, and the broader progressive movement in Chicago know him simply as “Chuy.” He has not wavered in his commitment to social and economic justice. In fact, he has been a consistent advocate and ally for progressive issues.
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