Are they talking about $15 and hour for management and supervisor types or snotty nose kids just out of puberty, still in high school working part-time asking me if I want two apple pies for a dollar?
The $15 dollar an hour crowd are mind numbed robots controlled by activist handlers with ivy league educations. $15 is not about parity or equity, $15 is just more chaos and hubris where everyone suffers for the benefit of the few.
Keep up with the times. It's folks who appear to be ilegales who don't speak coherent English.
The answer to your question is...
“snotty nose kids just out of puberty, still in high school working part-time asking me if I want two apple pies for a dollar?”
This is a union driven thing, though...has nothing to do with “living wage”. Union wages are a multiple of minimum wage. Union membership has dropped over time. Union dues are based on employee wages, follow the money.