Nicola works in Olympia and testified in front of the Olympia City Council on the need for $15.
Read More$15 for Olympia: Community Day is september 26th
On September 26th at Heritage Park in Olympia, join us as workers and community members have a community day in support of $15 for Olympia. Food, live music, art projects, guest speakers, and more are all happening.
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$10 minimum wage AND $11 minimum compensation
The Seattle minimum wage in 2015 is $10/hr minimum wage AND $11/hr minimum compensation if you work for a smaller company or chain with less than 500 employees in total, across the country.
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$11 an hour
The 2015 Seattle minimum wage is $11/hr if you work for a company or chain with more than 500 employees nationally. The wages are going up again on January 1, 2016 and every year after that. The first workers get to $15/hour in 2017, and everyone gets there in the next few years afterwards.
Read MoreFour months under the new Seattle minimum wage = $1000!
The new Seattle minimum wage has been in effect since April 2015. For a full-time worker working at a company or chain with more than 500 employees nationally, you’ve seen roughly a THOUSAND more bucks in your paycheck.
Read More"I'm fighting for $15...to build my life up."
NIchole works at McDonald's in Olympia. She testified to the Olympia City Council about the need for the city to get a $15 minimum wage.
Read MoreRemember that pizza place that said it was closing because of $15? Everything they said was wrong.
When zPizza said it was closing up shop in Seattle because of minimum wage, Q13, KUOW, and others suggested it was a sign of things to come. But now a new pizza place is moving into the same location and there’s now a shortage of pizza cooks in Seattle. Think these news outlets will follow up on reality?
Read MoreA $200,000 reason to try and buy an election: the only candidate who's out against $15 is in big for colonizing Mars
There are 59 candidates for 11 positions on Seattle City Council & the Port of Seattle. Only one says he opposes the $15 wage — and his other key issue is colonizing Mars. Big business lost the debate… so now they’re trying to buy an election?
Read MoreSeattle voters: check out RunForTheMoney.org
The more you know about who’s spending money to support a candidate, the more you know about what to expect from them. That’s the principle behind a new website from Working Washington — RunForTheMoney.org — which highlights the massive spending by business lobby groups in this year’s City Council primaries.
Read MoreMinimum wage workers need a raise - to $15
Check out the Op-Ed published in The News Tribune by Jesse Griggs, a Tacoma McDonald's worker with Working Washington.
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