(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…
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…
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 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 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…
We will be participating in the annual Martin Luther King Jr birthday celebration and march again this year in Seattle. We will be leading a workshop alongside Jobs for All about the need for good jobs in the community–especially for people of color, immigrants and other working folks who don’t always get a fair shake in…
By Nathan Jackson This year has been a banner year for Working Washington and working folks who are standing up for fairness, better pay and good jobs. So, without further ado, here are five of our favorite moments of 2012–news worthy events that we all were able to accomplish together. Amazon gives ground to the…
By Nathan Jackson 99% SuperPACs have been meeting from South to North Seattle and across from Tacoma to Bellevue. We are dedicated groups coming together to bring forward the issues that really matter to the 99%: good jobs, affordable healthcare, and political system that isn’t rigged against us. We learn about what causes these problems,…
By Nathan Jackson “Romney and Ryan look at Medicare and Medicaid as a bunch of numbers waiting to be cut down, ” said Carol Green, a healthcare worker and SEIU 1199NW member. “My patients aren’t numbers. I’m not a number. We’re not numbers. We’re people who just want what was promised.” Green stood in front…
by Nate Jackson State Attorney General Rob McKenna doesn’t think the 99% deserve a raise. In fact, he actually thinks that low wage workers should get a pay cut. Speaking to a group of business leaders last year, McKenna ignored the record profits of big corporations, CEO bonuses and the huge tax loopholes that big…
