NIchole works at McDonald's in Olympia. She testified to the Olympia City Council about the need for the city to get a $15 minimum wage.
Read MoreRemember that pizza place that said it was closing because of $15? Everything they said was wrong.
When zPizza said it was closing up shop in Seattle because of minimum wage, Q13, KUOW, and others suggested it was a sign of things to come. But now a new pizza place is moving into the same location and there’s now a shortage of pizza cooks in Seattle. Think these news outlets will follow up on reality?
Read MoreA $200,000 reason to try and buy an election: the only candidate who's out against $15 is in big for colonizing Mars
There are 59 candidates for 11 positions on Seattle City Council & the Port of Seattle. Only one says he opposes the $15 wage — and his other key issue is colonizing Mars. Big business lost the debate… so now they’re trying to buy an election?
Read MoreSeattle voters: check out RunForTheMoney.org
The 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 MoreMinimum wage workers need a raise - to $15
Check out the Op-Ed published in The News Tribune by Jesse Griggs, a Tacoma McDonald's worker with Working Washington.
Read More"I would love to be able to change my life."
Jesse Griggs testified to the Tacoma City Council about the need for Tacoma to get a raise to $15.
Read MoreWill Tacoma City Council Propose a Minimum Wage Increase that Nobody Can Get Behind?
Despite 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 MoreAn open letter from Working Washington leaders in Tacoma to the Mayor & City Council
Tacoma fast food worker leaders tell City Council: if forced to choose between a quick raise to $15 and a slow, uncertain, loophole-laden phase-in to $12, voters might very well have no real choice but to approve the ballot measure that actually gets fast food workers to a living wage.
Read MoreCan you tell a corporate McDonald's from a franchise McDonald's?
Bet you can't tell the difference — take the quiz and find out!
Read More"We reject any proposal to carve out a McDonald’s loophole that allows multibillion-dollar global franchise systems to evade their responsibility for poverty-wage jobs"
The leaders of Working Washington and six other organizations sent the following letter to Tacoma Mayor Marilyn Strickland and the other members of the Tacoma City Council, urging them to ensure that fast food chains are categorized as large businesses in the city's minimum wage law.
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