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SeaTac $15 minimum wage winning in early vote countBy MIKE BAKER Associated Press
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/15-SeaTac-minimum-wage-winning-in-early-vote-count-230764221.html
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SEATTLE (AP) - A national push to create a $15 minimum wage found a new source of momentum Tuesday as an initiative on the issue built an early lead in the airport city of SeaTac.
An early vote count Tuesday showed the measure carrying 54 percent of the vote. Because Washington state votes entirely by mail, more ballots are left to count.
The campaign in SeaTac drew national attention from both labor unions and business groups, with the two sides combining to spend $1.8 million - enough money to hire every registered voter in the city for a day at $15 per hour.
The proposal requires a $15 minimum wage for many workers in and around Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. It follows a series of summertime rallies in which fast food workers and others around the country called attention to their struggle to earn a living.
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freshwest
(53,661 posts)And this one, too, came with a cost but will be a great boon to the state's job picture:
Boeing and union have tentative deal that would site 777X in Everett
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10822571
liberal_at_heart
(12,081 posts)Boeing is systematically dismantling the Boeing union.
liberal_at_heart
(12,081 posts)$15/hour is not enough for a living wage. I'd much rather see $18/hr or $20/hr. But $15/hr is a pretty big jump from $9.19/hr. Much better than the nickle and dime raises minimum wage usually gets.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)Must be a rather important bell weather.
garf
(14 posts)I don't understand. It was unions who got this law passed in the first place. Why are union workshops exempt from it?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dana-milbank-no-calamity-yet-as-seatac-wash-adjusts-to-15-minimum-wage/2014/09/05/d12ba922-3503-11e4-9e92-0899b306bbea_story.html
"Those who opposed the $15 wage in SeaTac and Seattle admit there has been no calamity so far. Paul Guppy, vice president for research at the free-market Washington Policy Center, said SeaTac is a boutique case because of its size. Airport workers have been left out for now because of a lawsuit, and union workplaces are exempt, so only about 1,600 got raises."