“Today, our Seattle minimum wage is $10 higher than the federal, and the movement that started here has spread nationwide. Over the past decade, we’ve increased wages by more than $150 billion dollars for 26 million workers across the country.

Our victories in Washington aren’t just about what we’ve won, but who has benefitted. We have taken on some of the most deeply entrenched and racist labor standards exclusions in federal law. In Seattle, nannies and house cleaners passed the first municipal Domestic Workers Bill of Rights to establish basic protections like minimum pay and breaks. And this year, for the first time, Washington farmworkers are earning overtime. These victories are chipping away at an economic system that for too long has trapped workers of color at the bottom.”

Temperatures are reaching triple digits in Yakima, Spokane, and Walla Walla, and the 90s in Seattle & the rest of the state. So it’s a good time to brush up on the outdoor heat exposure rules that kick in for workers exposed to 89º+ temperatures for more than 15 minutes in a 60-minute period.

The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to strike down abortion rights is a misogynistic attack on people who can become pregnant. We condemn this assault on bodily autonomy and workers’ rights, which will fall the hardest on poor people, people of color, immigrant workers, and LGBTQ+ people.

Good news can be tough to find right now—so here are some recent wins for WA workers.

And today, we’re finally celebrating a huge victory: the Seattle City Council just voted to pass our PayUp policy into law, ending subminimum wages for gig workers on apps like DoorDash, Instacart, and Gopuff!

Gig companies shelled out $25,000 to hire a corporate “crisis communications” person to testify at a Seattle City Council committee hearing yesterday, where he strung words together in opposition to our PayUp policy. Meanwhile, gig workers communicated about the true crisis they’re facing in the gig economy—subminimum wages as low as $2/job.