Take action: We need more than 15 cents!
The state announced on September 30th that our state minimum wage is going up by a whopping 15 cents to $9.47 an hour — a nickel and a dime. That’s less than $400 a week, before taxes - if you work full time. Tell your legislators: our minimum wage may be the highest in the country, but it’s not enough.
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What do you think the Washington State minimum wage should be?
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Read MoreEven the people writing the paychecks think that minimum wage should increase
Huffington Post: Minimum Wage Hike Has Strong Support Among Employers, Survey Finds
Poll after poll indicates that the vast majority of Americans believe the minimum wage isn't high enough. Apparently, a lot of U.S. employers agree
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Economic Policy Institute: Wage Theft is a Much Bigger Problem Than Other Forms of Theft—But Workers Remain Mostly Unprotected
“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.”
“At the end of the day, we are all people.”
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 MoreThe $15 movement keeps on spreading
The Olympian: Is Olympia ready to raise minimum wage?
“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.”
SeaTac. Seattle. Bellevue. Washington.
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.’”
"Whatever it takes"
Malcolm works at McDonald's. He engaged in civil disobedience because he's willing to do whatever is takes to defend & expand $15.