 Towards a 15$ minimum wage? Socio-economic impacts and collective action 
What about the minimum wage today and the $15? What about the campaigns carried out in Quebec by labor organizations, community action groups and other groups committed to these issues? The $15 threshold has become symbolic in North America. It arouses divisions and several observations show that these campaigns come up against resistance from employers’ organizations – their “natural adversaries”– and from the government, but also, paradoxically, resistance even within trade unions and groups. community action, as well as in low-wage, non-unionized workplaces. This article provides a critical assessment of the “campaigns for the $15” in Quebec by comparing them to those carried out in the United States and in the rest of Canada. It is also based on the results of an investigation aimed at two objectives. The first one studies the qualitative impacts of raising the minimum wage to $15 on workers earning between $15 and $19. It is this category that manifests some of the reluctance observed (unionized workers, freelancers, SMEs, immigrants, etc.). The second objective analyzes the interactions between union and non-union organizations (community groups and others) on these issues in the context of the various campaigns. These campaigns seem weakened by two types of obstacles. The first refers to the tense interactions between unions on the one hand, and on the other hand to the relations between community groups representing a very wide diversity of interests (professionals, community, non-unionized workers, women, immigrants, etc.) which sometimes affects their cohesion. The second type of obstacle concerns their external relations. First, the “natural alliance” which should strengthen collaboration between trade unions and community groups is encountering some dissension. then the problematic external relations maintained by this coalition with the other actors of civil society: employers’ organizations, the media and, above all ... with the State.