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A very good thing has happened: for the first time, gig workers are making a minimum wage! And a predictable thing is also happening: corporate app companies are mobilizing against gig worker minimum pay. Just three weeks ago, the groundbreaking minimum pay ordinance for gig workers went into effect. This law grants us one of the first-ever […]
Today’s vote by the Seattle City Council to appoint Tanya Woo to the vacant council seat marked the new council’s first action and the working-class community’s last chance to shape the makeup of our council until November. Now, the people who live in Seattle, work in Seattle, and love Seattle need to keep our focus on improving our day-to-day lives in our city by holding the council accountable to our values.
The Seattle City Council just wrapped up the first of two days of public comment about the vacant seat. Dozens of people were there in person to speak out against the moneyed corporate interests trying to manipulate our city government process. But the push isn’t over. The council is voting TOMORROW 1/23 on who should […]
On January 13th, 2024, the #PayUp ordinance finally went into effect – the law that thousands of gig workers fought for that guarantees us a minimum pay floor and better flexibility and transparency standards.
In 2022, Seattle gig workers won a first-in-the-nation minimum pay standard so that gig companies could no longer pay subminimum wages to the workers who make app-based services possible. This new law goes into effect Jan. 13th, but instead of following it and paying workers a livable wage, Target’s delivery service Shipt announced it would rather skip town.