Fight for $15 Movement Do you want to fight the increasing bigotry, hatred, and economic and racial inequality that is exploding in America? Do you have the dedication, grit, and a commitment to push yourself to be better, more skilled, and smarter tomorrow than you are today? Do you want to carry on the tradition of social movements - civil rights, workers' rights and women’s rights – and organize people’s strength in numbers to protect and advance freedom, justice, and equality for all? Do you want to build social movements in the Heartland – where they are most needed – and help change the direction of the nation? If you’ve answered yes, then you should read on. What are we looking for? We seek serious and dedicated applicants for immediate part-time and full-time positions to our organizing staff. We look for people who want to fight the nation’s hardest political battles, happening today in America’s Heartland and Industrial Midwest, in order to take the country in a different direction. Who is Stand Up St. Joe? Stand Up St. Joe is a new city in the Fight for $15 movement of low wage and fast food workers coming together for $15 an hour and the right to form a union. Stand Up St. Joe is a sister organization of Stand Up KC and work to build unity with low wage workers from both cities to increase their strength in numbers. Stand Up KC is a founding city in the national Fight for $15 movement. Since 2013, it has organized 11 strikes of fast food and low-wage workers fighting for $15 and the right to form a union. We raised the minimum wage from $7.65 to $13 in Kansas City in 2015. Stand Up KC worker leaders have introduced President Obama at the White House. Women workers formed the Fannie Lou Hamer Women’s Committee and our Langston Hughes Photo Club was featured in the New York Times. Nationally, the Fight for $15 has raised wages for 22 million workers, put 10 million workers on a path to $15, and put a $15 federal minimum wage in the Democratic Party’s 2016 presidential platform. The movement was credited with defeating Trump’s pick for US Labor Secretary, CEO of Hardee’s and Carl’s Jr., Andy Puzder in February 2017; and Stand Up KC joined 1000s in Chicago in May 2017 to march on Trump Tower and McDonald’s annual shareholder meeting.

What’s the role of an organizer and what makes a good one?

The role of an organizer is as simple as it is challenging: bring workers together and create opportunities to realize their own individual and collective power to solve their own economic, social, and political problems.

Stand Up St. Joe organizers work in a highly collaborative environment, value introspection, take direction extremely well, and welcome feedback to improve their organizing skills and performance. Organizers are comfortable working in highly impoverished and diverse communities. Meeting with people in their homes and at their workplace. Have strong verbal and communicative skills and an aptitude for memorization.

As an organizer you work closely with a bright, talented, and committed staff and leadership that is highly supportive and dedicated to the development of your skills and capacity as an organizer.

Organizers come to the table everyday with a commitment to justice that pushes them to work hard. Hours can sometimes be long and erratic and can include weekends during big campaign pushes.