Listen to our live teletownhall, originally broadcast Thursday, May 26, 2016
Secure scheduling is coming to Seattle. Join us for a live Tele-town hall May 26th to learn more, ask questions, and get involved.
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Raise Up Washington I-1433
When passed, I-1433 will raise the statewide minimum wage to $13.50 over the next four years and provide up to 7 days of paid sick & safe leave as a base level for every employee in Washington.
Read MoreDay Of Our LIfe
We are putting together a 24-hour calendar about how insecure schedules affect our work, our homes, and our lives. We’re calling it “Day of Our Life” and you’re the star.
Read MoreStarbucks scheduling commitment falls a couple weeks short
Starbucks sign-production department follows through on corporate commitment to post three weekly schedules… but workers at actual Seattle Starbucks store only get one weeks’ notice anyway.
Read MoreThe poetry of the Seattle Times editorial board on minimum wage
Sometimes the best poetry is found poetry — such it is with the titles of Seattle Times editorials. Time after time their Editorial Board expresses confidence that bad things will surely happen if wages increase. Then the negative impacts don't arrive, but it's because... it's just a matter of not enough time yet. And then the next time around... the final moment of reckoning still hasn't arrived... it just get further delayed until after the next editorial.
Read MoreHow unpredictable & insecure schedules affect all of us
A few tweets on how unpredictable, unstable schedules in retail & food service affect everyone
Read MoreBusiness types get flexible with the truth on secure scheduling
Take a look at what the business lobby has been saying about secure scheduling, and you'll see the ultimate flexibility: flexibility with the truth. That's because there's just no honest way to convince someone that their hours ought to vary wildly from one week to the next, or that flexibility should always work to the benefit of companies, but never in the opposite direction.
Read MoreWe won't let them turn back the clock
On 4/14 we raised the alarm on poverty wages, workers rights, and the attempts of big business lobbyists to try and turn back the clock on the progress we’ve already made.
Read MoreUniversity of Washington Study Proves Opposition to Minimum Wage Increase is Wrong...Again
Before Seattle's $15 minimum wage law started to phase in, 62% of employers said they planned to raise the prices at their own businesses. But their predictions were wrong again — a new UW study found no price increase at all!
Read MoreCould this happen to you?
Seattle is a leader on workers rights issues like our $15 minimum wage, paid sick & safe time ordinance, and wage theft laws. But what happens if employers are still breaking the rules?
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