WMajalisar ta kada kuri'a a yau tare da layin jam'iyya kai tsaye don kara mafi karancin albashi zuwa $15 nan da 2025, ba wai kawai ya nuna wani muhimmin ci gaba a yakin ba don ƙirƙirar (kuma a wasu lokuta, maido da) tattalin arziƙi mai fa'ida da daidaito. Hakanan ya kwatanta tsarin yanki da Brandeisian na ci gaba da gyare-gyare a cikin Jam'iyyar Democrat da Amurka.
Louis Brandeis ya kira jihohi "dakunan gwaje-gwaje na dimokuradiyya" - wuraren da za a iya gwada manufofin ci gaba kafin a tafi ƙasa. A yau, duk da haka, ainihin biranen da suka zama labs na Brandeis. Ba daidai ba gida ga ƴan tsiraru, baƙi, da millennials (waɗanda su ne ƙarni na hagu a cikin tarihin Amurka na zamani), biranen da ra'ayoyin ci gaba suka taso, suka yi tushe, kuma suka zama doka.
Tabbas haka lamarin yake game da mafi ƙarancin albashi na $15. Yaƙin na 15 ya fara ne da aikin aiki na ma'aikatan abinci masu sauri ɗari biyu a cikin New York City a cikin Nuwamba na 2012, yana nuna ƙarƙashin tutar $15 da ƙungiyar. Ƙungiyoyin New York Communities for Change (ƙungiyar magajin New York ACORN) ne suka tsara kuma suka shirya wannan yaƙin neman zaɓe tare da Ƙungiyar Ma'aikata ta Duniya. A lokacin, darektan New York Communities for Change Jon Kest yana fama da ciwon daji (ya mutu da kyar mako guda bayan zanga-zangar farko); gwargwadon yadda yakin yana da wanda ya kafa shi, Kest.
An goyi bayan SEIU, wanda ya tura ɗimbin masu shiryarwa a cikin birane da yawa, ba da daɗewa ba zanga-zangar ta bazu zuwa yawancin manyan biranen birni. A cikin 2014, yaƙin neman zaɓe ya yi rajistar nasararsa ta farko a ƙaramin yanki mai aiki a Seattle na Sea-Tac, gida zuwa filin jirgin sama na Seattle da dubunnan baƙi da yawa, gabaɗayan ma'aikatan da ba na ƙungiyar ba suna aiki azaman masu dafa abinci, sabobin, masu kula da kulawa da ma'aikatan kulawa don ikon mallakar filin jirgin sama daban-daban. (I na kullum Yaƙin Seattle a cikin Fall 2014 fitowar na Prospect.) A wani yunƙuri na matsa lamba ga filin jirgin sama (da kuma ikon da ke bayansa, Alaska Airlines) don ba wa waɗannan ma'aikatan damar haɗin gwiwa, shugaban SEIU na jihar Washington David Rolf ya ce ƙungiyarsa za ta sanya wani mataki kan zaɓen Sea-Tac wanda zai ƙara mafi ƙarancin albashi nan take. akwai zuwa $15-ba tare da wani jimla-lokaci ba-sai dai idan filin jirgin sama ya amince da neman ma'aikata na ƙungiyar. Filin jirgin saman ya ce a'a, an sanya ma'aunin a gaban masu jefa kuri'a na Sea-Tac, kuma ya yi nasara - nasara ta farko ta yakin neman albashi na $15.
Ba zato ba tsammani, a Seattle - birni mafi girma da ke kusa da Sea-Tac - an fara yakin neman zaben magajin gari, kuma SEIU ta kalubalanci 'yan takarar magajin gari da su marawa mafi karancin albashi na $15 a Seattle daidai. Ed Murray, dan takarar da SEIU ke marawa baya, ya amince da karin albashi, kuma a lokacin da aka zabe shi, ya kafa kwamitin kasuwanci da shugabannin kwadago don tsara tsarin da za su amince da juna tare da gabatar da sakamakon ga majalisar birnin, wanda ya zarta matakin. , Yin Seattle birni na farko na kowane girman don ɗaukar daidaitattun $15.
Yayin da aka ci gaba da zanga-zanga a biranen kasar, musamman a New York da California ne aka samu nasarori na gaba. Ba wai kawai su ne jihohi biyu mafi girma na ci gaba a cikin al'umma ba, har ma sun kasance gida fiye da rabin mambobin SEIU kusan miliyan biyu kuma, saboda haka, jihohin da SEIU ke da mafi girman siyasa. San Francisco ya zama babban birni na biyu don karɓar albashin dala $15, tare da Los Angeles na biye. A New York, Gwamna Andrew Cuomo ya kafa kwamitin albashi don masana'antar abinci mai sauri, wanda ya yanke hukuncin biyan dala $15 ga ma'aikatan abinci na birni. Ba da daɗewa ba, kuma kusan lokaci ɗaya, duka California da Jihar New York sun ƙaddamar da albashi ga duk ma'aikatansu a duk faɗin jihar.
Garuruwan sauran wurare sun kasance suna biye da su: A cikin 2014, Chicago ta haɓaka mafi ƙarancinta zuwa $13. Yawancin garuruwan da ke jajayen jahohin kuma sun yi kokarin kara musu albashi, sai kawai aka ga ‘yan majalisar dokokin jam’iyyar Republican a Alabama, Texas, Florida, da sauran jihohi sun zartar da dokokin da suka kwace musu mulki, duk kuwa da irin jajircewar da ‘yan jam’iyyar Republican suka yi na yin mulki a cikin gida.
Musamman a cikin shekaru biyar da suka biyo bayan yakin neman zabe na 2012, SEIU ita ce ke haifar da nasarar nasarar motsi. Gangamin bai rasa nasaba da wasu cece-kuce a cikin kungiyar ba, tun da farko an yi shi ne a matsayin wani kokari ba kawai na karin albashi ba har ma da hada kan dimbin ma’aikatan da ke aiki a masana’antar abinci mai sauri. Tun da farko, ya bayyana a fili cewa yayin da ƙungiyar za ta iya samun isasshen siyasa da ɗabi'a don shawo kan majalisun birane masu sassaucin ra'ayi da majalisun dokoki na jihohi don aiwatar da karin albashi, haɗin gwiwar waɗannan ma'aikatan masu karamin albashi ba zai faru ba. Doka ta tarayya ce ke tafiyar da hada-hadar gama-gari, kuma dokar da ta dade ba ta da wani amfani wajen kare haƙƙin ma’aikata na haɗin gwiwa, ta yadda duk ƙoƙarin yin amfani da shi, ko zagaya ko ta hanyar, don tsara waɗannan ma’aikatan ya ci tura. (Kazalika, yaduwar ma'aikatan abinci cikin sauri a kan dubban kantuna, kowannensu yana ɗaukar 'yan kaɗan kaɗan na ma'aikata, ya sanya tsarin al'ada ya zama mai tsada kuma kusan ba zai yiwu ba.) A cikin yaƙin neman zaɓe wanda SEIU ke kashe miliyoyin daloli kowace shekara. , Yakin na 15 ya gaza hada ma'aikaci daya.
Kamar kare wanda ya kama motar, ko da yake, SEIU ya yi nasara sosai a yakin da yake yi don kara yawan albashin da yakin, duk da tsada, ba za a iya sauke shi cikin sauƙi ba ko ma yanke shi. Yana da matuƙar godiya ga Shugabar SEIU Mary Kay Henry cewa ƙungiyar ta ci gaba da mara mata baya duk da wasu adawa na cikin gida. Kuma ga godiyarta, haka nan, cewa 'yan jam'iyyar Democrat sun sanya mafi ƙarancin albashi na $15 a matsayin plank a cikin dandalin jam'iyyarsu ta ƙasa na 2016.
A wani lokaci-watakila 2016, lokacin da California da New York sun riga sun karɓi ma'auni, Bernie Sanders yana yaƙin neman zaɓe a kai, kuma 'yan Democrat sun sanya shi a cikin dandalin su - Yaƙin na 15 ya ɓace daga yaƙin neman zaɓe na Democratic hagu zuwa kawai asali bukatar Demokiradiyya. A yau, jihohi bakwai (California, New York, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, da Connecticut) da Gundumar Columbia sun kafa dokoki da za su daidaita a cikin mafi ƙarancin $ 15, da wasu manyan ma'aikata masu ƙarancin albashi, kamar Amazon da Target, sun sunkuyar da kansu don matsa lamba don haɓaka mafi ƙarancin su zuwa wannan matakin kuma.
Kusa da haɗin kai na 'yan Democrat na House a cikin kuri'un na yau ('yan Democrat shida ne kawai suka kada kuri'a) ba wai kawai juya jam'iyyar ta hagu a kan tattalin arziki ba, har ma da tattara tushen jam'iyyar da kuma, saboda haka, zaɓaɓɓun jami'ai a biranen Amurka-wadanda ba su da alamar Brandeisian. kawai gida ne ga sabon hagu na al'umma amma kuma ga tsadar rayuwa kuma, don haka, buƙatar ƙarin albashi. Sabanin haka, 'yan jam'iyyar Democrat sun fi shakka game da dokar (karkashin jagorancin Alabama's Terri Sewell) sun fito ne daga yankunan karkara da Kudancin. (Jihohi biyar waɗanda ba su da ƙa'idodin mafi ƙarancin albashi na nasu-ma'aikata ana biyan su matakin tarayya - su ne Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, da Tennessee: wato, jihohin da gadon bauta ya wanzu.)
Ci gaban yaƙin na 15 daga ƙungiyar al'umma ta hagu da ƙungiyar hagu zuwa biranen hagu zuwa jihohin hagu zuwa ga tsarin dimokuradiyya na wakilci ne na babban sauyi na Jam'iyyar Dimokuradiyya a cikin 'yan shekarun nan, da kuma ci gaba. Mai da hankali a cikin manyan biranen ƙasar, tushen Demokraɗiyya ƙarfi ne da ke tura dukkan jam'iyyar hagu. A cikin birane, an fara zaɓen membobin Majalisar kamar Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez da Rashida Tlaib. Ƙarin irin wannan zai biyo baya.
Tura dukkan al'ummar hagu, ba shakka, yana da babban kalubale. Majalisar dattijai, wacce ke wakiltar acreage maimakon mutane, ba za ta ma la'akari da dokar da majalisar ta zartar a yau ba muddin tana karkashin mulkin Republican. Kamar yadda Brandeis zai iya lura, 'yan Democrat suna da biranen amma suna buƙatar ƙarin jihohi.
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