99% launch week of action ahead of Amazon Shareholder Meeting on May 24th
Calling on giant retailer to pay their taxes, treat workers with respect, and dump ALEC During the afternoon rush hour on May 18th, several banners appeared over I-5 to bring attention to Amazon’s corporate tax dodging, mistreatment of workers, and support for the notorious right-wing group ALEC. This is just the first event in a...…Continue Reading
First-Class Profits for Alaska Airlines, Poverty-Class Wages for Airport Workers.
A new report on jobs at our airport has just been released by Working Washington, OneAmerica, Faith Action Network, and Puget Sound Sage. You can download a full copy of the report here: First-class Airport, Povert-class Jobs: How the Port of Seattle and Alaska Airlines create prosperity for some and economic hardship for others. Here is...…Continue Reading
From sweatshop warehouses to South Lake Union: Amazon workers speak out.
Amazon’s shiny new campus in South Lake Union shows off the success of the multi-billion dollar corporation. But what happens when customers click through the Amazon website and order something? That’s when thousands of warehouse workers get to work moving products — in conditions a lot less glitzy than you see in South Lake Union....…Continue Reading
Hundreds unite for good jobs at our airport.
by Nate Jackson Hundreds of airport workers, their families and community members came out on a sunny Saturday to say one simple thing: let’s make every airport job a good job. We gathered at the flag pavilion where we set up a stage flanked by large standing flags of over twenty nations representing the diverse...…Continue Reading
Corporate tax dodgers put on notice by the 99%
by Nate Jackson On Tax Day the 99% took to the streets to show big corporate tax dodgers extraordinaires like Amazon and Wells Fargo that they were on notice. Thousands of people across the country participated as workers, concerned citizens and community groups came together to address some of the fundamental problems facing all of...…Continue Reading
One loophole down, many more to go.
by Nathan Jackson After years of public pressure state lawmakers finally closed one of the most egregious loopholes in our state budget: a lucrative giveaway for out of state big banks worth tens of millions a year. It is a good start and it would not have happened without public pressure, but we still have...…Continue Reading
