Professor Michael Oswalt was quoted in the Chicago Tribune article, This is an ongoing battle. ‘Workers at the forefront of the Fight for $15 relish minimum wage victory, press on for union rights’, published on February 22, 2019. The article discusses the Fight for $15 movement’s use of strikes in the successful campaign to increase Illinois’s minimum wage to $15 an hour. Professor Oswalt notes that “[s]triking showcases a courage that is hard to ignore,” and suggest that Fight for $15’s use of the tactic has recently spread to other industries and professions, especially teachers.
