Working Washington released the following statement after workers in Tukwila won a $3/hour boost to the city’s minimum wage. As of election night, Raise the Wage was leading with 82%+ of the vote.
“Once again, workers in our region have demonstrated what’s possible when we organize together to improve our lives,” said Danielle Alvarado, Executive Director of Working Washington. “This landmark win ensures a long-overdue $3/hour raise for thousands of workers in Tukwila—and the astonishing margin of victory shows there’s broad agreement in the community that boosting wages is good for both workers and the economy.”
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Contact Jeffrey Gustaveson: jeffrey@workingwa.org
Working Washington is the voice for workers in our state. Working Washington fast food strikers sparked the fight that won Seattle’s first-in-the-nation $15 minimum wage. Working Washington baristas and fast food workers led the successful campaign for secure scheduling in Seattle, and our members across the state helped drive forward Initiative 1433 to raise the minimum wage and provide paid sick days. We successfully drove Amazon to sever ties with the right-wing lobby group ALEC and improve conditions in their sweatshop warehouses, and got Starbucks to address inequities in their corporate parental leave policy. And we've continued to make history by organizing for the landmark statewide paid family leave law in 2017, winning the groundbreaking Seattle Domestic Workers Bill of Rights in summer 2018, leading the fight to restore overtime protections to salaried workers in 2019, and passing the nation's strongest labor standards for gig workers. For more information, visit workingWA.org.