“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…
(Originally posted on itsOURairport.org.) Puget Sound Sage has released its latest report “Below the Radar:How Sea‑Tac Airport’s substandard working conditions hurt our region and how other major airports changed course toward growth and prosperity.” EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Many travelers are unaware of the work it takes to fly in and out of Sea-Tac Airport safely, comfortably…
By Nathan Jackson You can’t keep a good annoying, incorrigible, out of work icon down; at least not for long. Over 100 community members came to University Village to tell the Starbucks and Microsoft CEOs that they need to drop their support of the corporate front group “Fix the Debt.” This group of wealthy CEOs…
By Nathan Jackson We’ve driven our economy back from the worst of it, but without good jobs and investments in social services like quality education, healthcare and safety net programs we are risking the gains we’ve made. We could be heading back into the ditch. Cue the CEOs telling us that the ditch isn’t so…
By Nathan Jackson Percolating with hundreds of coffee-economic-justice-puns written by the community, we went to Starbucks HQ in the SoDo district to deliver a message to Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz. TV news cameras rolling, we set up right outside the cathedral looking Starbucks HQ and shared some of the puns that the community had sent…
