Working Washington

We are workers, united across industries to improve our working conditions and our lives. Partner org to Fair Work Center.

[Working Washington @workingwa]

Workers hit the streets on #MayDay to make it clear we're not putting up with the business as usual being foisted by billionaires, their corporations, & their bought politicians. Together we can build the worker power to get what we're owed and build the world we deserve.

[Working Washington @workingwa]

Together, we'll advance and enforce workplace protections, support worker organizing, and fight corporate power and its affordability crisis! Join us in strengthening the multiracial workers' movement that fights and WINS! *LINK IN BIO*

[Working Washington @workingwa]

If you know how to build narrative power and can turn it into an organizing tool, come join our team! We are seeking a Strategic Communications Director ready to help workers build power across Washington state to fight for the good workplaces and communities we all deserve.

[Working Washington @workingwa]

Catch us on Instagram Live every Tuesday at 6:30 in February as we race to win the Domestic Workers Bill of Rights before the end of Legislative Session in March! We'll be giving you the concrete next steps YOU can do to help win the Domestic Workers Bill of Rights in Washington!

[Working Washington @workingwa]

Fighting for justice is about building power, not asking nicely for fair treatment. On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, we honor the organizer and man who called on us all to build power through a multiracial working class to win the world we deserve.

[Working Washington @workingwa]

THE TIME IS NOW FOR YOU TO SIGN IN PRO to show legislators in Olympia that you support the Domestic Workers Bill of Rights! Together, we'll end the exclusion of nannies, gardeners & others from basic work protections! Sign in for each the House & Senate! https://t.co/f140MLCZRT

[Working Washington @workingwa]

Hey UberEats… *points to massive settlement where UberEats agreed to pay $15 million to 16,000+ workers for violating two labor rights laws* …this you?? 👀

[KOMO News @komonews]

City Hall unfazed by report on gig-worker law impact amid Uber Eats settlement:
https://t.co/aI2vcj45J3

[Working Washington @workingwa]

Restaurant workers organized for and won a new way to enforce safe workplaces. By expanding King Co Public Health's ability to help restaurants ensure safe, healthy workplaces for workers, we can finally treat workers' rights like the public health issue they are.

[KING 5 News @KING5Seattle]

Restaurants already post food safety grades. Soon, if they don’t fix labor violations, they’ll have to post a second sign calling that out. https://t.co/h1dX6QEr3R

[Working Washington @workingwa]

If the Court rules in workers' favor, we will finally strike down this 64-year-old exemption that has carved this majority Black, majority immigrant, majority women industry out of fundamental labor standards for decades. Stay tuned. 👀

[Working Washington @workingwa]

Workers, repped by our legal clinic Fair Work Center, argued before the state Supreme Court last week that exempting live-in care workers from the right to minimum wage is unconstitutional. (Also gross/wrong/immoral but that's not exactly a legal premise) https://t.co/9C6XDWN4HZ

[Working Washington @workingwa]

Restaurant workers in King County today won the vote for safer restaurants! Starting next year, restaurants that violate workers' rights like paid sick leave or breaks could face extra health inspections. No more hiding unsafe, unhealthy working conditions behind closed doors!

[Working Washington @workingwa]

We'd love to live in a world where no employer is a gross creepy weirdo, but we don't live in that world yet - so we're proud to work w @AGOWA in supporting workers holding a 💩 boss accountable. Our legal clinic Fair Work Center is on the case, & workers are leading the fight!

[The Seattle Times @seattletimes]

The Washington state Attorney General has sued the owner of four King and Snohomish County “bikini barista” coffee stands over alleged sexual harassment of female employees and labor law violations.
https://t.co/qjUqMqO33G

[Working Washington @workingwa]

Want to send an email to the Board in support of healthy & safe workplaces for restaurant workers? Click here! https://t.co/2c3bcKOVUT

[Working Washington @workingwa]

Restaurant workers with Working Washington are at the @KingCountyWA council chambers today, making our case for why safe & healthy workplaces for restaurant workers should be treated like a public health issue — because it is!! 1/

[Working Washington @workingwa]

The King County Board of Health is hearing testimony on a proposal to expand the Public Health Department’s ability to enforce restaurant workers’ rights in our workplaces. Because when workers handling food can stay home & stay healthy, everyone wins. 2/

[Working Washington @workingwa]

Check it out! Our comms director @hmshowell & @ufcw3000 leader Joe Mizrahi shared why we were all in on Rep. @OsmanSalahuddin's law to make our Sick & Safe time safety net more inclusive of more workers. All workers deserve to care for ourselves and our families!

[Public News Service @PNS_News]

#Washington lawmakers have expanded the state’s paid Sick and Safe Leave time law to allow for workers to use earned paid leave to attend #immigration-related proceedings.

https://t.co/R5sUHK44Wy

[Working Washington @workingwa]

We’re up! Live-in care workers, repped by our legal director, are making the case that excluding live-in care workers at Adult Family Homes from basic labor rights (like minimum wage & breaks) is unconstitutional. It’s time to strike down this exclusion.

[Working Washington @workingwa]

Opposition representing the employer (Assurecare) is presenting oral argument now. Hop on the livestream with us: https://t.co/JMCkonBGm2

[Working Washington @workingwa]

Opposition representing the employer (Assurecare) is presenting oral argument now. Hop on the livestream with us: https://t.co/JMCkonBGm2

[Working Washington @workingwa]

Watch #WASupremeCourt @WACourts oral arguments live with us, today between 9am-11am: https://t.co/yEcOycDxU1