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“Wage theft—employers’ failure to pay workers money they are legally entitled to—affects far more people than more well-known and feared forms of theft such as bank robberies, convenience store robberies, street and highway robberies, and gas station robberies. ”
After a brief press conference to a group of TV cameras, we marched from the McDonald’s on Madison down to the I-90 lid. We gathered there hearing from workers who declared that I-90 will now be known as WA-$15. “I’m on strike because minimum wage isn’t enough,” Suzanne said. “I want $15 so that I can take my kids to Wild Waves. They’ve never been there; we can’t afford it. I always have to tell them no and I don’t want to do that anymore. It’s not right. They are making all this money and they pay us so little I can’t even treat my kids once in a while. This needs to change.”
After a brief press conference to a group of TV cameras, we marched from the McDonald’s on Madison down to the I-90 lid. We gathered there hearing from workers who declared that I-90 will now be known as WA-$15. “I’m on strike because minimum wage isn’t enough,” Suzanne said. “It’s not right. They are making all this money and they pay us so little I can’t even treat my kids once in a while. This needs to change.”
Read More“As cities including Seattle and SeaTac pursue a minimum wage of $15 an hour, Olympia City Councilman Jim Cooper wants the discussion to begin in South Sound.
Washington’s $9.32 minimum wage is the highest in the nation. The federal minimum wage is $7.32 an hour.”
Q13: Protesters demanding $15 minimum wage arrested in Bellevue after blocking intersection
“Dozens of demonstrators marched across the I-90 bridge from Seattle to Bellevue and, for the first time, rallied in front of fast-food restaurants on the Eastside.
“The grass-roots movement that happened in Seattle will catch on in Bellevue and hopefully infect all of the Northwest,” said Austin Welsch, a supporter of the group ‘Working Washington.’”
Malcolm works at McDonald's. He engaged in civil disobedience because he's willing to do whatever is takes to defend & expand $15.
Seattle won $15 but the movement to strike poverty isn’t over yet. The International Franchise Association is suing to overturn our minimum wage law because they think it’s not fair to McDonald’s, and Tim Eyman wants more than $1 million to try and take away the power cities have to raise wages.
Read More“As fast-food workers demonstrate nationwide for a $15 hourly wage, and congressional Republicans fight off a $10 federal minimum, little SeaTac has something to offer the debate. Its neighbor, Seattle, was the first big city to approve a $15 wage, this spring, but that doesn’t start phasing in until next year. SeaTac did it all at once. And, though there’s nothing definitive, this much is clear: The sky did not fall.”
“I’m 43 years old, probably not ever going to be able to buy a house, but at least I’ll be a little more comfortable in my own surroundings.”
McDonald’s Corporation and franchisees tie the knot, take joint responsibility for employees
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It’s official. Workers at Bags, who serve Alaska Airlines customers, at Sea-Tac Airport celebrated as the votes were counted in a union election. We won!
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