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I am all for people making a living wage but if the company they work for goes broke because of their demands they lose it all. I've seen this happen more than once and then all the jobs were lost and the harm it caused to the whole community was immeasurable. So social justice could also be protecting more than the grocery checkers it could be about protecting a whole community. There are always 2 sides to a story and I'd have to see both of them.

People see corporations as rich and they think they deserve their share of the pie without taking the risk or at least generating their share of the profit by doing a good job. Supply and Demand should be allowed to work in the job place too. I guarantee that if it was allowed , with all the laws we have in place, anyone worth their job would be making good money and those who were just passing time to make a paycheck would be sadly disappointed.

A lot of people seem to forget that in most companies, of the money available for splitting between labor and profit, labor already receives 75-90% of it depending upon the company's other costs (materials, fixed plant, etc.). The notion that a company with a 5-10% profit is somehow screwing the workers who are getting perhaps 50% or more of the gross is ridiculous. Investment needs a return, or there will be no investment.