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| https://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/newswatch/111015 | News November 10 | 2015-11-10 | 2015 | 2015-11 | Independent | House | VT | Bernard Sanders | S000033 | www.sanders.senate.gov | legacy | News November 10 Tuesday, November 10, 2015 Fast Food Strike Fast-food workers in nearly 300 cities plan to walk out at 6 a.m. Tuesday in a bid to leverage their crusade for a $15-an-hour wage and sway the 2016 presidential election, USA Today reported. The group representing the workers, Fight for $15, plans to stage protests at restaurants in 270 cities, the most since it began organizing the demonstrations three years ago. Striking fast-food and other low-wage workers will then gather at local city halls in the late afternoon, kicking off a campaign to prod their colleagues to vote next November for local, state and national candidates who support the $15 pay floor. Sanders backs a $15 federal minimum wage and will strike with workers Tuesday. The Des Moines Register talked to Iowans who would see the biggest lift from a minimum wage increase. Iowa's minimum wage is $7.25 an hour. State lawmakers have tried to increase it to $8.75, but the votes havent been there, KCCI-TV in Des Moines reported. LINK, LINK, LINK Postal Service Sanders crusade to save the struggling U.S. Postal Service from extinction, which long predates his campaign for the Democratic nomination, isa powerfulemblem of what he says can work in government as he fights against big banks, for a higher minimum wage and for moretaxes on wealthy households and corporations, The Washington Post reported. LINK World Myanmar After struggling against the heavy hand of the Burmese military for two and a half decades, the opposition party of the Nobel Peace laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi said Monday that it was confident of a sweeping victory in the countrys landmark nationwide elections, The New York Times reported. Although official results of Sundays election trickled in for only a handful of districts, the potential electoral success by Ms. Aung San Suu Kyis political movement underlined the appeal of a woman who sacrificed her family, her health and 15 years of her life as a political prisoner to oppose dictatorship in Myanmar. LINK National Editorial: Denying JusticeIn recent years, Americas corporations have created a private system for handling disputes that benefits them greatly while denying consumers their day in court. Reversing the broader trend of forced arbitration, however, will require public outcry loud and long enough to stir the White House and Congress to action, The New York Times wrote. LINK Immigration Ruling A federal appeals court on Monday ruled against President Obamas plan to shield up to 5 million undocumented immigrants from deportation, dealing another blow to the administrations effort to remake immigration laws and likely setting up a final battle in the Supreme Court next year, The Washington Post reported. The 2-to-1 ruling from a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit in New Orleans to uphold a lower courts injunction that blocks the administration from implementing a deferred-action program was not unexpected. It came several months after the same court had denied an emergency stay request from the Justice Department. LINK ImmigrationHeaving under mountains of paperwork, the government has spent more than $1 billion trying to replace its antiquated approach to managing immigration with a system of digitized records, online applications and a full suite of nearly 100 electronic forms. A decade in, all that officials have to show for the effort is a single form thats now available for online applications and a single type of fee that immigrants pay electronically, The Washington Post reported. LINK Automatic Voter Registration As Republicans across the country mount an aggressive effort to tighten voting laws, a group of former aides to President Obama and President Bill Clinton called iVote is pledging to counter by spending up to $10 million on a push to make voter registration automatic whenever someone gets a drivers license, The New York Times reported. LINK Vermont Homelessness The growth in the number of homeless people is well-recognized across the state. Welcoming them into communities, however, has sometimes been downright chilly. And as the weather turns colder, the need for warming shelters is meeting obstacles in some towns, VT Digger reported. LINK | 1 | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z |