Tampa workers call for federal $15 minimum wage and honor devoted labor activist Martin Luther King Jr. Next Two months ago, more than 60% of Florida voters voted to increase the state minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2026. Today, fast food workers and cashiers in Tampa—and at least 14 other cities across the country—went on strike to honor the birthday of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. and to uplift a federal $15 minimum wage. “To be in a position now where we have multiple people coming out...Nobody is as scared no more,” Alex Harris, a local fast food worker with Fight for $15 and a Union, told Creative Loafing Tampa Tampa Bay, as a car caravan honked horns outside a McDonald's in East Tampa. “Everybody is starting to take a stand and realize how strong your voice is. How strong voting is. It just, you know, it definitely hypes us up and it keeps us going.”