The city of Burien is suing the organizers behind a recently approved ballot measure raising the minimum wage, claiming the initiative is unconstitutional and should not be enforced. Measure 1 ...

The Ballot Initiative Strategy Center, which backs progressive ballot measures, is tracking about 100 active bills in 18 ...

While protests against President Trump's second administration were initially muted in Seattle and Washington as challenges ...

Activists want to raise the minimum wage, give workers more rights to fair scheduling and full-time hours, and improve workplace safety.

App-based delivery network companies and business advocacy groups are calling for a change to a proposed worker deactivation ...

Katie Wilson, the General Secretary of the Transit Riders Union and long-time local progressive organizer, is running for ...

So observed the Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce ... over the last couple of elections we have seen minimum wage increases in Burien, Tukwila, Renton and Everett all by initiative.

Reay cited a 2021 University of Washington study that examined whether Seattle’s phasing in of a $13 minimum wage from 2014 to 2017 lowered income inequality in the city. The study found that ...

Two weeks prior to the governor’s order, Glover had consulted a chef friend in Seattle, where the pandemic ... overseas wars and local minimum-wage statutes have all slimmed margins for owners ...

Washington state lawmakers are considering legislation that could grant new protections for nannies, gardeners, carers, house cleaners and other workers employed in private homes. Dubbed the “domestic ...