Voters to decide on $15 minimum for airport workers

[Popular Front of Judea]

For all the tourists and business travelers passing through town on their way to the airport, SeaTac still has more than its share of people struggling to make ends meet.

Nearly 4,300 of the city’s 27,000 residents live in poverty, and 17 percent of households are on food stamps — the third-highest percentage in King County, according to the most recent Census Bureau estimates.

Now, a group backed by the Service Employees International Union wants to raise the minimum wage in SeaTac by 63 percent, a move aimed at raising the incomes of thousands of baggage handlers, cabin cleaners and other workers in and around Sea-Tac Airport.

The so-called Good Jobs Initiative, up for a public vote this fall, would lift the city’s minimum wage to $15 an hour for hospitality, transportation and other airport-related businesses.

SeaTac voters to decide on $15 minimum for airport workers | Seattle Times (http://seattletimes.com/html/businesstechnology/2021466045_minimumwagejobsxml.html)

(No comment yet from Enver Hoxha apparently ... )

[Workers-Control-Over-Prod]

For all the tourists and business travelers passing through town on their way to the airport, SeaTac still has more than its share of people struggling to make ends meet.

Nearly 4,300 of the city’s 27,000 residents live in poverty, and 17 percent of households are on food stamps — the third-highest percentage in King County, according to the most recent Census Bureau estimates.

Now, a group backed by the Service Employees International Union wants to raise the minimum wage in SeaTac by 63 percent, a move aimed at raising the incomes of thousands of baggage handlers, cabin cleaners and other workers in and around Sea-Tac Airport.

The so-called Good Jobs Initiative, up for a public vote this fall, would lift the city’s minimum wage to $15 an hour for hospitality, transportation and other airport-related businesses.

SeaTac voters to decide on $15 minimum for airport workers | Seattle Times (http://seattletimes.com/html/businesstechnology/2021466045_minimumwagejobsxml.html)

(No comment yet from Enver Hoxha apparently ... )

I have an interview for an $8.50 an hour service job. I really should think about moving up to Seattle man.

[Popular Front of Judea]

I can't believe California minimum wage is still 8.00/hour. Oregon's is 8.95 and here in Washington State it's 9.19. (I have to say time and half after 8 hours has to be nice though.)

Minimum Wage Laws in the States | US Department of Labor (http://www.dol.gov/whd/minwage/america.htm)


I have an interview for an $8.50 an hour service job. I really should think about moving up to Seattle man.

[The Douche]

I can't believe California minimum wage is still 8.00/hour. Oregon's is 8.95 and here in Washington State it's 9.19. (I have to say time and half after 8 hours has to be nice though.)

Minimum Wage Laws in the States | US Department of Labor (http://www.dol.gov/whd/minwage/america.htm)

Here it is $7.25, tipped workers are at $3.63.

I don't know a single person making minimum wage that does not live with their family, and I am 25. You either make above minimum wage, wait tables/tend bar, or live with your parents, with no end in sight.

[Os Cangaceiros]

I guess this is the tactic that is currently somewhat in vogue now, in order to leverage wage increases from employers. The ballot initiative.

Not as dramatic as strike action, but considering the skeletal state of the USA's unions...