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Jan 20, 2015 Working Washington

Everyone loves raising - the minimum wage

Jan 20, 2015 Working Washington

63% of Americans support a $15 minimum wage according to a new national poll. SIXTY-THREE PERCENT. That’s huge.

The poll, run by Hart Research, found that support for raising the minimum wage had jumped up across the political spectrum, ethnic groups, and regions of the nation.

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Jan 7, 2015 Home nathan

Is there something wrong with you just because your job doesn’t pay very much?

Jan 7, 2015 Home nathan

Former Starbucks President Howard Behar seems to think so. At least that’s what he said at a forum on the $15 minimum wage today.

Jan 7, 2015 Home nathan

Dec 19, 2014 Home sage

Poverty-wage workers name Alaska CEO Brad Tilden as $15 movement's "Person of the Year"

Dec 19, 2014 Home sage

Airline executive honored for accidentally inspiring workers in SeaTac, Seattle, and beyond to fight for $15

Dec 19, 2014 Home sage

Dec 18, 2014 Home nathan

SeaTac won $15, but Alaska Airlines and their corporate cronies sued to block its full implementation. Sea-Tac Airport workers are fighting back.

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Dec 17, 2014 Home nathan

Sylvia is a homecare worker who came out in support of fast food workers fighting for $15. She needs $15 too.

Dec 17, 2014 Home nathan

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Jan 30, 2015 coal miners, three year olds, bingo, business lobby groups, Switzerland, airstrips, Section 8, Hunger Games, lotteries, sick days, Tacoma, Sea-Tac Airport, emoji, testimony sage

Sometimes you need more than a colon and a parenthesis

Jan 30, 2015 coal miners, three year olds, bingo, business lobby groups, Switzerland, airstrips, Section 8, Hunger Games, lotteries, sick days, Tacoma, Sea-Tac Airport, emoji, testimony sage

The week in work: some people really do have it all; a little Bingo parlor in Olympia; the unannounced Hunger Games prequel; and new legal language

Jan 30, 2015 coal miners, three year olds, bingo, business lobby groups, Switzerland, airstrips, Section 8, Hunger Games, lotteries, sick days, Tacoma, Sea-Tac Airport, emoji, testimony sage

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Healthy Tacoma statement on passage of Tacoma paid sick leave ordinance

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Malcolm Cooper-Suggs, a leader in the fight for $15, Happy Warrior

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"McDonald’s closely monitors everything we do, from the speed of the drive-through line, to the way we smile and fold customers’ bags"

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Malcolm has been a leader in the fight for $15

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Washington State Legislators are tackling budget issues - so are the workers who went to Olympia sharing theirs.

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Our book: fifteen stories from fifteen Seattle workers.

Hundreds of fast food workers with Working Washington launched strikelines across Seattle in May 2013, calling for $15 an hour and the right to organize, and sparking a movement to strike poverty by raising wages. Through a year of intensifying of marches, boycotts, strikes, and other mobilizations, worker voices dominated the public debate, making income inequality and the minimum wage into the central public issues of the day.

AIRPORT WORKERS

There are thousands of poverty-wage workers at our first-class airport, including the people who handle bags, clean cabins, provide passenger services, and fuel the planes. These poverty-wage workers at Sea-Tac Airport aren’t employed by the airlines or even the Port of Seattle, which runs the airport. Instead, these jobs have been contracted out to the lowest-bidder, driving down wages and benefits. Now these workers are organizing to make every job at our airport a good job. And they are winning.

JOBS NOT CUTS

We have the power to build a better future. We can create good jobs by investing in our communities. We can stop the cuts to healthcare, education, and other services. And we can make sure the rich pay their fair share so every community can thrive.

But the economy isn’t going to improve if we just wait for the corporations and the politicians to do the right thing. That’s why we’re building a movement to fight for good jobs and a better future for everyone.

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$15 FOR SEATTLE

AIRPORT WORKERS

JOBS NOT CUTS

Working Washington

Uniting workers for a fair economy

Working Washington unites working people to fight for a fair economy where everyone can support themselves, afford the basics, and contribute to the economy.