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Politicians--mainly those on the left--have used their platforms to promote a $15/hour minimum wage, as well as other prominent figures in favor of the movement. This support has encouraged many people to leave jobs where they are being severely underpaid, which has caused a shortage in labor that will hopefully lead to an increased minimum wage.

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We picked the issue of Labor Strikes, Labor strikes/social strikes are spreading throughout the nation. The topic "Strikes" are trending on twitter and gained the hashtag #STRIKETOBER

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the labor-movement, has made people walk off their because of unfair treatment and wages.

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In 2021, the U.S. has reported 178 strikes nationwide and 12 work stoppages since January.

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Some people have made posts comparing the cost of living from 10 years vs what it is now, and all average costs such as health care, rent, and median house cost has increase substantially. Minimum wage has not increased in most places so this is their way of protest.

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Many individuals online make comparisons both by state and country, in order to show that an increased minimum wage is a good idea that only serves to benefit the country. Many other countries with a higher minimum wage have prospered.

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The #MeToo movement really kicked off when celebrity Alyssa Milano used it in a tweet. The first time the phrase was used was all the way back in 2006. Twitter accounts today are still using the hashtag to raise awareness and Twitter actually recognizes the hashtag with a small icon. Similarly, the hashtag is widely used on Instagram as well from all kinds of users.

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NYC Firefighters Protest at Mayors home over vaccine mandate.

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NYC Firefighters Protest at Mayors home over vaccine mandate.

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The environmental justice movement has been actively posting on twitter under the tag #EnvironmentalJustice, they've been able to spread information quickly about their movement and how it's impacting our environment also hurts our health

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Some people have made tik toks or instagram reels to different trending songs in order to make their point. Some of them are arguing for the wage increase, and some are against.

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-Twitter hashtags #stormthecapitol #Jan6Insurrection #capitolriot #jan6th #january6th
-Livestreaming on Facebook and Instagram
-Live video feed on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Tiktok

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In the Fight for 15 movement, they utilize a website and social media campaign to create an audience to send targeted messages to. Their strategies are to aggregate relevant twitter posts into a feed liked by @fightfor15 on their website, which allows for a diverse, effective, real-world feed tied to the account with plenty of examples. Additionally, they have articles on their website, designed to be posted on social media networks and shared to increase the reach of the movement.

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There have been strikes against over 178 employers this year. About 10,000 employees of John Deere walked off the job in 5 different states. More than 20,000 nurses and workers in California and Oregon with Kaiser Permanente, a health care company, voted to strike.

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9000 Sanitation workers are on leave because they refuse to get vaccinated.

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9000 Sanitation workers are on leave because they refuse to get vaccinated.

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Social media helps to spread awareness and knowledge about the environmental issues around the world. social media is a great way for organizations to help support and show the affects of environmental changes. the largest twitter account used to put out information is @EnvJustice

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-01/06/21 was the day that the final results for the 2020 presidential election were announced.
-Protestors wanted to stop V.P. Pence from accepting Biden as the new U.S. President.
-"Hang Pence"

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Website was made that helps those who need resources and those who can support others, their big lines on their website are me too. and act too.
With headings like Explore Healing, Take Action, Our Work, these all lead to links on the website to take you to the appropriate resources to either help survivors or to have those who can donate and support survivors.
#beyondthehashtag is being used to take people from just understanding the hashtag that was created and understanding the greater meaning beyond that hashtag.
There has also been an anniversary created for the hashtag, which is a week in October, which invites a growing community of survivors and allies, to go beyond just the hashtag.

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Labornotes.org posted an article on twitter about the Frito-Lays strike, the workers made headway with the strike by accepting the companies offer to end the strike. Employees stated that they're disappointed with the deal, they'd hoped they would get further with wages. However they're proud they feel like they've started a movement, and are proud they stood up. The Strike began on July 5th and ended on July 23rd. With the increase of strikes in October, it seems like they did start a movement.

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Chipotle employees are striking all across New York in protest of the new 'Boorito' promotion, as well as lost wages.

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The Environmental Justice Movement seeks to provide an environment where everyones equally protected from health and environmental hazards and all have an equal say in decision-making to maintain a healthy environment.

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Tweets by CANIntl

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https://metoomvmt.org

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Studies have shown that the #metoo movement has helped immensely in exposing powerful men that would have gotten away with it without the #metoo's exposure. It has also increased the amount of sex crimes that are being reported in the United States. Not only has did it help to stop powerful people, it was also shown to have made a difference on public behavior. This is all due to the project's emphasis on speaking out and being heard and accountability. There also no difference when it came to what race was more likely to report-the movement helped everyone to speak forward.
#metoo #stopvictimblaming

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The hashtag people use online is #fightfor15

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The hashtag people use online is #fightfor15

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Advantages & Disadvantages of the $15 minimum wage

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Advantages & Disadvantages of the $15 minimum wage

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https://www.jacksonlewis.com/publication/advantages-and-disadvantages-raising-federal-minimum-wage-15

This article goes in depth providing details and examples of some advantages and disadvantages of the movement.

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In January 2021, legislators introduced the " Raise the Wage Act of 2021," to increase the federal minimum wage from $7.25 an hour to $15 an hour by 2025. If passed, it would be the first increase in more than a decade, the longest stretch since 1938.

While the federal minimum wage has remained stagnant, many state and local governments have already implemented a $15 minimum wage. (For example, in 2014, Seattle required businesses to incrementally increase their minimum wage until it reaches $15 an hour. In 2021, the Seattle minimum wage is $16.69 an hour.) Nevertheless, such a massive overhaul at the federal level is sure to be contentious among many and will be debated intensely.

Below is a brief overview of some of the key arguments both sides will present.

Advantages

Raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour would improve the overall standard of living for minimum wage workers. These workers would more easily afford their monthly expenses, such as rent, car payments, and other household expenses. Representative Robert Scott, chair of the House Committee on Education and Labor, stated, "Today, a full-time worker cannot afford a modest, two-bedroom apartment in any county in the U.S." Senator Bernie Sanders has also taken the position that the minimum wage needs to be $15, as he believes full-time workers should not fall below the poverty line.

It has been argued that a second, less obvious, advantage to raising the minimum wage is increased employee morale. Not only will happier employees lead to a more cohesive, productive workforce, but also could result in higher levels of customer satisfaction. Additionally, if employees are satisfied with their job and their pay, they are less likely to leave, which in turn reduces the employer's hiring and training costs.

Proponents argue that increasing the minimum wage to $15 also will benefit minority workers and women. A $15 minimum wage would give 31 percent of African Americans and 26 percent of Latinos a wage increase. Additionally, a disproportional number of minority workers reside in one of the 21 states that maintains a minimum wage of $7.25 an hour.

Disadvantages

Opponents to increasing the minimum wage argue small businesses would be adversely affected by such a drastic increase in the minimum wage. Just as small businesses begin to bounce back from the worldwide Covid-19 pandemic, an increase in the federal minimum wage would significantly increase small businesses' operating costs and make margins tighter.

Raising the minimum wage to $15 also would increase childcare costs in the United States by an average of 21 percent. In 2019, the average early childcare worker the United States earned $11.65 an hour. Therefore, a federally mandated $15 minimum wage would increase the cost of labor for childcare providers by almost 33 percent.

Another argument against the Raise the Wage of Act is the vastly different state economies, with drastically different costs of living. A uniform minimum wage could disproportionally impact a small business in a state with a low cost of living. For example, to have the same minimum wage would be impractical in California and Oklahoma, as the average value of a home, according to Zillow.com, is $635,055 in California but only $143,173 in Oklahoma.

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As the federal minimum wage debate continues to spark strong opinions, advocates on either side will continue to assert many reasons in support of their positions. Those opposing a minimum wage at all argue market forces should control. If the competition is fierce for qualified employees, an employer may have little choice than to adjust wages to prevent departures. Employers and employees should be aware of positions on both sides of the debate and prepare for what is an almost inevitable change in the federal minimum wage law.

Please contact a Jackson Lewis attorney with any questions.

(Spring Clerk Logan Adams, in our Dallas office, contributed significantly to this article.)

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Advantages and Disadvantages of Raising Federal Minimum Wage to $15 - Jackson Lewis

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In January 2021, legislators introduced the "Raise the Wage Act of 2021," to increase the federal minimum wage from $7.25 an hour to $15 an hour by 2025. If passed, it would be the first increase in more than a decade, the longest stretch since 1938.

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They pubically planned this

-A right-wing forum opened up with the same name of a reddit thread that was taken down for violating their rules of no hate speech.

-50% of the posts on january 4th discussed the storming of the capitol.

-a Facebook group called Red State Secession, with nearly 8,000 followers, that was calling for a "Second American Revolution" on January 6.

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On the same days as COP26, citizens provide testimony from around the world about the problems of climate change and deforestation to make a case for the rights of nature.

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The International Rights of Nature Tribunal is an international institution established by citizens to investigate and publicize Rights of Nature violations. It creates a forum for people from all around the world to speak on behalf of Nature, to protest the destruction of the Earth-destruction that is fostered by corporations with the governments' compliance-and hence, the Tribunal visibilizes the conflicts and its perpetrators and makes juridical recommendations about Earth's protection and restoration as modeled jurisprudence for frontline communities. The Tribunal also has a strong focus on enabling Indigenous Peoples to raise their voice and share the impacts that they see in their territories as guardians of the Earth, but is also a space to share solutions about land, water and culture with the global community.

The Tribunal verdicts, if implemented at the very highest levels, could provide a much-needed tool in the struggle for environmental justice. A civil ethical Tribunal inspired by the International War Crimes Tribunal, the Permanent People's Tribunal and other such grassroots efforts to make up for the failure of the state to provide justice, the International Rights of Nature Tribunal is now calling upon the United Nations - and upon nations in general - to take up the job that it has been fulfilling for years, and defend Nature's fundamental Rights.

Climate and Environmental Crisis

Under most legal systems operating in the world today - certainly those that are in effect at the national and international levels - Nature and all the beings that conform it do not exist except as so-called "natural resources"; a form of human property to be exploited to a greater or lesser degree at will, thus making it impossible to protect Nature in a court of law from any angle other than its role in human interests.

It is now more clear than ever that these legal systems have not only failed to protect our planet from the advances of an insatiable extractivism; they are, in fact, the tools of that very extractivism, supposedly "regulating" the destruction caused by industries such as mining and fracking, while in practice only sanctioning and perpetuating it.

In the face of the insufficiency of traditional environmental law, the Rights of Nature present a new form of jurisprudence that, by acknowledging Nature as a legal subject of rights just like human beings, pushes courts to look beyond economic incentives and actually make decisions based on the interests of both humanity and the earth community as a whole.

Time is up: the ecological crisis is upon us in such a way that to deny it would be to reject the evidence before our own eyes, and we can no longer afford to abide by laws that are fundamentally unfit to address the current situation; Nature's fundamental Rights must be acknowledged at every legal level: locally, nationally, and internationally, if we are to avert this crisis.

To that end, the International Rights of Nature Tribunal seeks to demonstrate how the Rights of Nature can be applied, putting a series of urgent, real-world cases before a panel of distinguished judges, who examine and rule on the cases from a Rights of Nature perspective.

The Fifth International Rights of Nature Tribunal will be heard on the 3rd and 4th of November, 2021, in Glasgow, alongside the COP26 organized by the United Nations Conference on Climate Change (UNFCCC), where it will deliver its message in the very arena where the environmental policies of the world are being debated, standing as an alternative to the many false solutions that are being peddled there.

Join us this November in defending the Rights of Nature, and add your voice to the popular demand for governments and courts all around the world to begin playing their part in stopping the ecological crises of our day.

The Fifth International Rights of Nature Tribunal will hear two of the most fundamental ecological cases facing the world today:

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Glasgow Tribunal 2021 - Rights Of Nature Tribunal

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The International Rights of Nature Tribunal is an international institution established by citizens to investigate and publicize Rights of Nature violations. It creates a forum for people from all around the world to speak on behalf of Nature, to protest the destruction of the Earth-destruction that is fostered by corporations with the governments' compliance-and hence, the Tribunal visibilizes the conflicts and its perpetrators and makes juridical recommendations about Earth's protection and restoration as modeled jurisprudence for frontline communities.