“It’s obvious to anyone who’s ever worked at a franchise outlet — or even just eaten at one — that these giant multibillion-dollar chains are highly standardized operations with resources that smaller independent operations do not have,” said Sejal Parikh, the Executive Director of Working Washington. “Ever notice that every McDonald’s has the same food?

The workers’ movement for a $15 minimum wage continues to spread: on Thursday, March 12, 2015, low-wage workers from Olympia will lead a rally and march to City Hall, calling on their local government to pass a citywide $15 minimum wage law and advance workers rights in the city of Olympia

Less than a month before the first increases under Seattle's minimum wage take effect, the franchise industry's lobby group will be in Federal District Court Tuesday, arguing that the landmark $15 minimum wage law is unfair to McDonald's, Subway, and other giant franchise systems

Just 3 months after fast food workers went on strike in Aberdeen, Bellevue, Kent, and Olympia and rallied at the State Capitol with airport workers, homecare workers, and other suppporters from across Washington, the State House the State House voted 51 - 46 today to raise the minimum wage to $12/hour. The timing is no coincidence.

Working people and community supporters will be at the Capitol on Monday to offer testimony before the House Appropriations Committee on bills to raise the minimum wage and pass a minimum standard for paid sick and safe time — but a few minutes in a hearing room isn't enough to represent the experiences of the more than half-million people in our state who are paid poverty wages of less than $15/hour, or the million workers who don’t have paid sick days.

Workers & supporters with Working Washington will hand out business lobbyist Bingo cards at the State Capitol today, inviting everyone to play along during the House Labor Committee’s 1:30 hearing on bills to raise the minimum wage and establish a minimum standard for paid sick days. You can print your own Bingo card and follow along on #waleg.

1) Business lobby groups have been making the same predictions of imminent disaster for more than 100 years — and the sky hasn't fallen yet; 2) They might get emotional; 3) Micro is not the same as macro, and having an existential crisis is not the same as making an argument.

As legislators sign on to raise the minimum wage in Washington State, new poll shows overwhelming 75% nationally in support of $12.50, and 63% supermajority favoring $15.00.

Tilden has been named Working Washington's 2014 Person of the Year for accidentally helping spark a nationwide movement for $15 and the right to organize — by trying anything and everything to block poverty-wage airport workers from winning better wages and working conditions