Six candidates for mayor of Seattle pulled green, circular stickers off of a small sheet. Each sticker represented $25 of a monthly budget, and the candidates had to stick them on an oversized poster board to show how they would make ends meet on the same amount of money a full-time minimum wage worker takes…
Fast food workers launched strikes across the city for better pay and the right to organize without retaliation. Overwhelming community support is what met them as they walked off and back onto work the next day. Here are the highlights in Tweets, Photos, News Articles and Videos. http://storify.com/WorkingWa/strike-poverty-raise-seattle
Fast food workers have launched strikelines across the city today, forcing three restaurants to close as the workers walked out, echoing the national call for a living wage of $15 and the right to organize without retaliation. While the top tier of Seattle’s economy may be booming, thousands of us are being left behind. Even…
“I never used to understand my father,” Fermin said into the microphone. “He was always angry, cold, you know? It wasn’t until I grew up that I realized why. He was always working and it was killing him.” He looked around the full room at Doc Maynard’s Bar and gripped the microphone. “He worked jobs…
(Originally posted on our Tumblr page: workingwa.tumblr.com) Behind a giant banner simply reading “UNION!” poverty-wage airport workers, faith leaders and community members marched down Pacific Avenue towards Alaska Airlines Global HQ. Reverend John Helmiere of Valley and Mountain United Methodist Church, wearing the white collar of his faith, glanced over at the over-sized letter informing…
Corporate profits are booming —so why are so many jobs paying poverty wages? And get this, some politicians have actually proposed to CUT minimum wage. Seriously. Sign here to tell politicians we need to raise the wage. Jobs should create opportunity, not poverty. When our jobs don’t pay enough to support basic spending levels, it…
Behind a giant banner simply reading “UNION!” poverty-wage airport workers, faith leaders and community members marched down Pacific Avenue towards Alaska Airlines Global HQ. Reverend John Helmiere of Valley and Mountain United Methodist Church, wearing the white collar of his faith, glanced over at the over-sized letter informing the airline that these workers have formed…
Apparently, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) thinks they can fool us again. You remember them — the big, corporate lobbying group. Now they’re trying to lower minimum wages. You read that right. They’re up to their old tricks again — now they’re trying to push for lower minimum wages because they want to pad their own…
(Originally posted on itsOURairport.org) New report shows how other airports have raised working standards, lifted up communities “Below the Radar,” a just-released report from regional think tank Puget Sound Sage, shows that Seattle-Tacoma International Airport arrives last among five major West Coast airports in standards for wages and working conditions. Thousands of Sea-Tac workers are…
We’ve got our hands on a translation of Congressman Ryan’s latest budget proposal called, “A Path to Austerity.” Here’s a couple of highlights of how austerity, also known as the “sequester” is already affecting Washington State. Hanford pink slips coming today from the Tri City Herald. Nine million dollars cut from Head Start Program in…
