Workers with Working Washington broke new ground for workers rights this year by coming together, speaking out, and making themselves heard. Check out some of the key stories where we hit the news, raised our voices, and changed the conversation about wealth, work, and inequality — and then help us keep it up by making a contribution today.
The Top Ten
Push for domestic-worker benefits knocks at Seattle City Hall’s door
Seattle Times (3/15/2018)
AG Ferguson moves to open job opportunities for fast food workers
KIRO 7 (7/12/2018)
Nannies of the Northwest, Unite! Seattle Tests a New Labor Model
Bloomberg (7/24/2018)
Seattle worker-rights groups uniting to create ‘one-stop shop’ for workplace wrongs
Seattle Times (8/3/2018)
State considers overtime rule changes
KING 5 (10/19/2018)
Washington considers raising 42-year-old standard on who gets overtime pay
Seattle Times (10/25/2018)
‘Clopening,’ other erratic work schedules take toll on service, retail workers, report says
Tacoma News-Tribune (12/20/2018);
also in The Olympian & the Tri-City Herald
The Big List
Airline Workers To Get $1,000 Bonuses After Tax Cut Trump Signed
NW News Network (1/5/2018)
Airlines sue over WA sick leave law
KCPQ-13 (2/7/2018)
Airlines Sue Over New Washington State Sick Leave Law
AP (2/7/2018)
ICYMI: Airlines Sue to Get Out of Following Washington Sick Leave Law
The Stranger (2/8/2018)
Nannies and other domestic workers push for new rights
Seattle’s Child (2/28/2018)
Push for domestic-worker benefits knocks at Seattle City Hall’s door
Seattle Times (3/15/2018)
A New Report Details All Kinds of Bullshit Seattle Domestic Workers Put Up With
Stranger (3/15/2018)
Trabajadores domésticos, acompañados por representantes de Working Washington y Casa Latina, estuvieron allí pidiéndole a la ciudad protecciones para una población que ahora mismo se encuentra vulnerable.
KUNS (3/15/2018)
Labor-backed group asks Washington state AG Bob Ferguson to charge Amazon with felony over head-tax threat
Seattle Times (5/9/2018)
Labor Group Asks Bob Ferguson to Criminally Charge Amazon Over Construction Pause
The Stranger (5/9/2018)
AG Bob Ferguson rejects activists’ call for felony prosecution of Amazon over head-tax threat
Seattle Times (5/11/2018)
Accusing Amazon of a felony shows skewed logic
Seattle Times Editorial (5/11/2018)
State updating rules on salaries for exempt employees
Kitsap Sun (5/25/2018)
'We're people too': Seattle domestic workers praise proposed bill of rights
KING-5 (6/21/2018)
Domestic workers: ‘We’re like the garbage they ask us to clean up’
Crosscut (6/21/2018)
Domestic workers deserve fair wages and treatment
Seattle Times Op-Ed (6/22/2018)
Carta de derechos
KUNS (6/22/2018)
Bill seeks to raise labor standards for housecleaners and nannies
Curbed Seattle (6/22/2018)
Seattle Considers a Domestic Workers Bill of Rights
Slate (6/29/2018)
AG Ferguson moves to open job opportunities for fast food workers
KIRO 7 (7/12/2018)
Seven Fast Food Restaurants Agree to Stop Practice That Screws Workers
The Stranger (7/12/2018)
Connelly: Big fast food firms to end 'no poach' rules that lock in workers
Seattle P-I (7/12/2018)
Washington AG’s Deal Grants Mobility to Fast Food Workers Nationwide
Seattle Weekly (7/13/2018)
Gig workers speak out
KNKX Radio (7/18/2018)
Think it’s easy to deliver groceries or drive a ride-share? Think again, workers say
Tacoma News Tribune (7/20/2018)
Seattle council to vote on new rights for nannies, house cleaners and gardeners
Seattle Times (7/22/2018)
Seattle is the first city in the nation to protect domestic workers
Crosscut (7/23/2018)
Seattle council approves 'bill of rights' for domestic workers
KOMO TV (7/23/2018)
Seattle approves new rights for nannies, domestic workers
KING-TV (7/23/2018)
Seattle Approves New Rights for Nannies, Domestic Workers
Associated Press (7/23/2018)
Seattle passes bill of rights for domestic workers
KIRO-TV (7/23/2018)
House Cleaners, Nannies, Other Domestic Workers to Get New Labor Protections
Stranger (7/23/2018)
Want to hire a nanny? Better brush up on this new law
KUOW (7/23/2018)
Seattle City Council passes new labor standards for domestic workers
Curbed (7/23/2018)
Seattle City Council approves labor standards for domestic workers
My Northwest (7/23/2018)
Seattle nannies, house cleaners and gardeners will get more rights, new board
Seattle Times (7/23/2018)
Nannies of the Northwest, Unite! Seattle Tests a New Labor Model
Bloomberg (7/24/2018)
‘I wouldn’t have been homeless if I had benefits.’ Gig economy workers demand better protections
Geekwire (7/28/2018)
Seattle worker-rights groups uniting to create ‘one-stop shop’ for workplace wrongs
Seattle Times (8/3/2018)
The gig economy traps workers in an unstable, chaotic cycle
Real Change (8/15/2018)
Shaping the 21st century workers’ movement
South Seattle Emerald (9/2/2018)
Amazon switches from defense to offense, raising starting wage for its workers to $15 an hour
Seattle Times (10/2/2018)
State considers overtime rule changes
KING 5 (10/19/2018)
More Washington workers could be eligible for overtime under proposed change
Spokane Spokesman-Review (10/22/2018); Also appeared in Yakima Herald
Another Nonprofit Resists a Fair Labor Measure
Nonprofit Quarterly (10/22/2018)
Washington considers raising 42-year-old standard on who gets overtime pay
Seattle Times (10/25/2018)
Public to weigh in on state proposal allowing more workers to earn overtime pay
KIRO 7 (11/27/2018)
Businesses and nonprofits express concern over proposed overtime rule
Yakima Herald (11/28/2018); also appeared in Walla Walla Union-Bulletin
Exotic dancers want more on-the-job protections in Washington State
KUOW (12/5/2018)
Exotic dancers want more work protections
Q13 (12/5/2018)
Dancers want protection from sexual harassment
KOMO TV (12/6/2018)
‘Clopening,’ other erratic work schedules take toll on service, retail workers, report says
Tacoma News-Tribune (12/20/2018); also appeared in The Olympian & The Tri-City Herald)