Workers, students, community members, and clergy will gather Wednesday afternoon to fight poverty wages and raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour as part of one of the largest national predicted low wage protests, Fight for 15. Protesters will gather at the university’s quad at 118 E South Street at 5 p.m.  

Organizers are calling the protest the “most widespread mobilization ever by U.S. workers seeking higher pay.” 

Those interested in attending can register online at http://www.ncignite.org/get-on-the-bus/ to take a bus from NC State to Shaw University. 

Protesters are aiming to advocate for the financial needs of workers, people of color and college students. 

Shaw’s Fight for 15 is part of the many protests, rallies and one-day walkouts scheduled for today across the country in more than 200 cities.

The growing effort to increase the wages and bargaining power of workers in non-union establishments gained momentum in November 2012, when 200 fast food employees in New York City left their jobs in protest, calling for $15 hourly wages and the right to unionize.