**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE*** Contacts: Thea Levkovitz, Thea@workingwa.org State fines Alaska Airlines contractor for failing to protect workers from exposure to blood borne pathogens, body fluids Serious health and safety violations for Alaska’s passenger services contractor at Sea-Tac Airport SeaTac Airport – April 18, 2013 – The Washington State Department of Labor and Industries …
Subscribe via RSS
Fighting for a Fair Economy
STAY INFORMED
Register for Email Updates
MANTÉNGASE INFORMADO
Registro para actualizaciones por correo electrónicos
Tag Archive: workers
Stand with striking Walmart workers this Black Friday
By Nathan Jackson Walmart workers across the country are striking for the first time in the company’s 50 year history, this Black Friday. Workers at the largest retailer in the world are fed up with their sub par treatment in the giant retailer. Many workers are underpaid, uninsured and treated with a lack of respect….
No one expects to get rich driving a taxi at Sea-Tac Airport. Nobody should expect to be driven into poverty either.
By Nate Jackson It’s hard to believe, but it’s true: after lease fees, licensing costs, taxes, insurance, gas, and maintenance, taxi drivers who pick up passengers at our airport start the work week as much as $1000 in the hole. That includes money they pay to dispatch companies like Yellow Cab and a weekly fee of more…
Today marks 63 years of Sea-Tac: time to make our airport a first class facility for workers.
by Nate Jackson On July 9th, 1949 — exactly 63 years ago — thousands of curious folks gathered around the new main terminal of Sea-Tac Airport to see the facilities. The mood was exciting: propeller planes roared on the runway, newspaper and TV cameras snapped away, and regular people explored the terminal with its brand-new…
Amazon dumps ALEC and promises to invest in warehouses, courtesy of the 99%.
By Nate Jackson Reverend Angela Ying, a 99%er, stood up in the middle of the Amazon Shareholder meeting and asked the billionaire CEO Jeff Bezos point blank, “Why are you still supporting the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)?” Bezos passed the question to an Amazon lawyer, Michelle Wilson. Wilson in as many words told us…
BREAKING NEWS: Amazon to drop its support of ALEC and improve warehouse conditions.
At the shareholder meeting on Thursday, May 24th, Amazon announced that it is dropping its support of ALEC (The American Legislative Exchange Council) in the face of “public concerns.” This is a direct result of consistent, public pressure. When we all stick to it and work together we can make a difference. From the Seattle…
99% launch week of action ahead of Amazon Shareholder Meeting on May 24th
Time for the giant retailer to pay their taxes, treat workers with respect, and dump ALEC The 99% shine a light on Amazon. While tourists and locals alike watched the 99% sent a message to Amazon using light and the backdrop of the Seattle Art Museum, the location of Amazon’s upcoming shareholding meeting. The messages:…
Beneath glittering towers warehouse workers speak out.
by Nate Jackson Amazon HQ in South Lake Union is an homage to the company’s success—success made in part by taking unfair advantage of their warehouse workers. Two former Amazon warehouse workers from the infamous Allentown “sweatshop” warehouse came to Seattle to talk directly to the executives in Amazon about the horrible working conditions the…
From sweatshop warehouses to South Lake Union: Amazon workers speak out.
Amazon’s shiny new campus in South Lake Union shows off the success of the multi-billion dollar corporation. But what happens when customers click through the Amazon website and order something? That’s when thousands of warehouse workers get to work moving products — in conditions a lot less glitzy than you see in South Lake Union….
Hundreds unite for good jobs at our airport.
by Nate Jackson Hundreds of airport workers, their families and community members came out on a sunny Saturday to say one simple thing: let’s make every airport job a good job. We gathered at the flag pavilion where we set up a stage flanked by large standing flags of over twenty nations representing the diverse…
