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…
Media Release for March 26, 2013, Contact: Thea Levkovitz, Thea@workingwa.org Worker unrest continues at Sea-Tac Airport… Poverty-wage airport workers to announce union and march on Alaska Airlines headquarters 1,000+ form unions for good jobs and living wages (Tuesday, March 26) Sea-Tac Airport workers will announce today that more than 1,000 poverty-wage cabin cleaners, baggage handlers, wheelchair assistants,…
(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…
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…
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…
By Nathan Jackson Waving messages on paper plates, airport food-service workers led a march through Sea-Tac Airport calling on the Port of Seattle to emphasize good food *and* good jobs at our airport. Port executives are currently considering changes in how food services operate at our airport that threaten to undermine the good jobs these…
By Nathan Jackson Community members were leafleting in downtown Seattle talking to tourists and Seattleites alike about Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz’s latest recipe–straight from the 1% cookbook. Schultz had his workers in DC write a slogan for his own political ideals on their customers’ cups. His “Come Together” slogan may sound reasonable, but what it…
*For Immediate Release, January 24, 2013 Contact: Thea Levkovitz, thea@workingwa.org Today (Thursday, Jan. 24) Alaska Airlines reported profits of $316 million in 2012. This represents a 3rd consecutive year of record profits for the SeaTac-based company. But meanwhile, poverty wages continue for the Sea-Tac baggage handlers, fuelers, passenger service workers, and cabin cleaners who work…
By Nathan Jackson Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz is leading a charge of merry CEOs to Washington DC, mocha in hand, to say to our elected leaders, “Hey Congress! Cut more social services and give us rich guys more money.” They have a more subtle way of saying it, but that’s the primary message of the…
