Activists Push To Raise Georgia's Minimum Wage to $15

What started as the SEIU’s campaign to unionize the fast-food industry has morphed into a national political campaign for 2016–with politicians answering activists’ calls to raise the minumum wage to (in most cases) $15 per hour.
With New York’s Democrat Governor Andrew Cuomo using his executive powers to raise fast-food workers’ wages in New York to $15, activists in Georgia are now planning to protest the Georgia state capitol on October 7 in an attempt to raise Georgia’s minimum wage to $15.
via Facebook:

Inspired by fast food workers in New York who for years organized, and took bold action that encouraged Governor Cuomo and his appointed Wage Board to recommend $15 an hour by 2020, underpaid workers in Atlanta are coming together to call on elected officials to give us a much needed raise to what we deserve: $15 an hour!

Home healthcare workers, fast food workers, child care workers, and community members are putting together an Atlanta Wage Board to record testimony from underpaid workers at the Georgia Capitol..

The fastest growing jobs are also the lowest paid. With industries like fast food making $200 billion a year, we know the companies we work for can afford to pay us a living wage of $15 an hour so that we have enough to care for our families.

Stand with us as we call on elected officials to do the right thing, give struggling workers a raise so that we can Raise Up Georgia!

Whether or not Georgia activists really expect the minimum wage to increase to $15 is unknown.
However, along with the WAGE Act, raising the minimum wage has become somethiing of a “litmus test” Democrat candidates going into 2016 and the rhetoric over wages will only be heating up as the 2016 campaign season begins in earnest.