{"id":2890,"date":"2015-07-02T19:15:38","date_gmt":"2015-07-02T19:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/166.62.41.2\/~holaamericanews\/2015\/07\/02\/tired-of-low-wages-and-stressful-working-conditions\/"},"modified":"2015-07-02T19:15:38","modified_gmt":"2015-07-02T19:15:38","slug":"tired-of-low-wages-and-stressful-working-conditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/tired-of-low-wages-and-stressful-working-conditions\/","title":{"rendered":"Tired of low wages and stressful working conditions?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Workers across the country are uniting and fighting for higher wages and better working conditions. The \u201cFight for $15\u201d campaign for higher wages and better working conditions has become a national movement, and now that movement has come to Iowa. At $7.25, Iowa\u2019s minimum wage is an insult to hardworking people who are trying to support their families and make a better life for themselves.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A single person working full time in Iowa needs to make $13\/hr to pay for their basic, no frills living expenses. For a single person with two children, that number jumps all the way to $28 an hour.\u00a0<\/p><div id=\"holaa-1403703209\" class=\"holaa-ad-inside-articles-2\" style=\"margin-top: 2px;margin-bottom: 2px;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center;\"><div class=\"holaa-adlabel\">Advertisements<\/div><a data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.desmoinesperformingarts.org\/whats-on\/series\/summerarts\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"a2t-link\" aria-label=\"HI-SummerSeries-300&#215;250-SP\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/HI-SummerSeries-300x250-SP.jpg\" alt=\"\"  width=\"300\" height=\"250\"  style=\"display: inline-block;\" \/><\/a><\/div><br style=\"clear: both; display: block; float: none;\"\/>\n<p>Hardworking Iowans deserve better than poverty wages and stressful, uncomfortable working environments. That\u2019s why Iowa CCI is leading the fight in Iowa and won\u2019t stop until we win.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Iowa CCI will be hosting a movement building workshop on Wednesday, August 5th at the Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement office at 2001 Forest Ave in Des Moines. SEIU\u2019s Caleb Jennings and a fast food leader in the \u201cFight for $15\u201d movement in Chicago will discuss the victory they\u2019ve had in Chicago and how Iowa can follow in Chicago\u2019s footsteps and raise our minimum wage. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For more details about the event call 515-282-0484. To learn more about the \u201cFight for $15\u201d visit fightfor15ia.org and \u201cLike\u201d Iowa CCI\u2019s Proyecto Latino page on Facebook.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>!La lucha sigue!<\/p><div id=\"holaa-2677300104\" class=\"holaa-ad-inside-articles\" style=\"margin-top: 2px;margin-bottom: 2px;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center;\"><div class=\"holaa-adlabel\">Advertisements<\/div><a data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/hhs.iowa.gov\/health-prevention\/diabetes-prevention-management\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"a2t-link\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Diabetes Spanish 300&#215;250\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Diabetes-Spanish-300x250-2.jpg\" alt=\"\"  width=\"300\" height=\"250\"  style=\"display: inline-block;\" \/><\/a><\/div><br style=\"clear: both; display: block; float: none;\"\/>\n<div id=\"holaa-1881343318\" class=\"holaa-after-content\" style=\"margin-top: 2px;margin-bottom: 2px;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center;\"><div class=\"holaa-adlabel\">Advertisements<\/div><a data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/progressiowa.org\/2023\/08\/take-action-with-progress-iowa\/?utm_source=news&#038;utm_medium=site&#038;utm_campaign=2026&#038;utm_id=News\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"a2t-link\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Progress Iowa Spanish 300&#215;250\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Progress-Iowa-Spanish-300x250-1.png\" alt=\"\"  width=\"300\" height=\"250\"  style=\"display: inline-block;\" \/><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Workers across the country are uniting and fighting for higher wages and better working conditions. The \u201cFight for $15\u201d campaign for higher wages and better working conditions has become a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2889,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"es","enabled_languages":["en","es"],"languages":{"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"es":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2890"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}