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Starbucks baristas should have schedules that are as consistent as their coffee. That's why baristas are calling on the company to step up and fulfill its promise to ensure every Starbucks worker has a stable, predictable schedule which respects that our time counts, too.
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Agricultural workers, fast food workers, and other low-wage workers across the Yakima Valley are coming together to launch a campaign for a $15 minimum wage at a community event at Washington Event Center at 4 pm.
Read MoreFrom the lobby group for the hotel industry to the lobby group for chain restaurants, the list of organizations weighing in to support the franchise industry’s lawsuit against Seattle’s $15 law reads like a list of sponsors of an ALEC convention. And that’s probably no coincidence, because the right-wing lobby shop held an entire meeting earlier this year attended by some of these very groups to strategize around legal, public relations, and other efforts to try and derail local minimum wage laws.
Read MoreThe 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 MoreDespite overwhelming public support for higher wages, the Tacoma City Council may very well be on the verge of doing the impossible: proposing a minimum wage increase that nobody can get behind. Working Washington will certainly not be supporting the current proposal for a multi-year plan to raise the wage to $12. It simply takes far too long, and offers workers far too little.
Read MoreA year ago today, Mayor Murray signed the nation’s first citywide $15 minimum wage into law. And despite dire predictions that the city would collapse into an economic wasteland, the sky remains aloft. It's a lesson for other cities & states considering higher wages — very same businesses that predicted disaster a year ago are now hiring, expanding, and reinvesting as Seattle economy grows stronger.
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While Port Commissioner Bill Bryant may be trying to introduce himself to Washington State voters as a plausible candidate for Governor, thousands of people who work at our seaport and airport can measure his track record in their poverty-wage paychecks.
Since he was first elected as a Port Commissioner, Bryant has repeatedly been on the wrong side of history, consistently opposing efforts to raise wages and improve working conditions at our port:
Bryant has served as a Port Commissioner at a time when Sea-Tac Airport workers have led a living wage campaign that is widely recognized for helping spark the nationwide $15 movement — and yet he has opposed essentially every proposal which has come before him to lift up poverty-wage airport workers and boost our local economy.
This is the Bill Bryant who airport workers are familiar with.
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Contact: Sage Wilson, Working Washington: sage@workingwa.org
Declaring "$15 is just the beginning — Inequality ends with us," 21 workers, students, and community leaders were arrested for blocking the street at 12th & Madison near Seattle University. The arrests came at the culmination of a massive statewide day of action that includes major marches, rallies, strikes, and occupations in Spokane, Yakima, Pasco, Olympia, Federal Way, SeaTac; a presence in a dozen more cities from Bellingham to Vancouver; and the expansion of the movement against poverty wages from fast food to include Uber drivers, retail workers, and adjunct professors.
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Contact: Sage Wilson, Working Washington: sage@workingwa.org
On 4/15/2015, hundreds and hundreds of fast food workers, homecare workers, retail workers, immigrant workers, drivers, adjunct professors, students, and others across Washington State will rise up from Spokane and Yakima to Olympia and SeaTac as part of the biggest nationwide mobilization yet in the fight against poverty-wage jobs. Here are times, places, locations and more info on how it all comes together.
Read MoreOn April 15th, well over a thousand fast food workers, homecare workers, retail workers, immigrant workers, drivers, adjunct professors, students, and others across Washington State will join tens of thousands more across the country in the biggest nationwide mobilization yet in the fight against poverty-wage jobs, culminating late afternoon in the streets of downtown Seattle.
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