Seattle restaurant owners sound off on delivery apps as council votes on minimum wage law It hasn’t been an easy road to recovery for many restaurant owners since the pandemic hammered their businesses. They’ve dealt… Read More
Gig workers deliver message to Seattle City Hall about the need for a minimum wage Delivery drivers for Grubhub, Uber Eats, DoorDash, Instacart and other companies left the Seattle City Council holding the bag this… Read More
Uber, Lyft, Instacart, DoorDash form coalition in Washington state to ‘protect driver independence’ Five evenings a week, sometimes more, Carmen Figueroa gets into her car, signs into her GrubHub account and sets out… Read More
Amazon poll finds most Americans support increasing federal minimum wage to $15 Eight in 10 Americans believe the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour is too low and two thirds support… Read More
Amazon got 850K job applications in one month after announcing a $15 minimum wage People apparently lined up to work at Amazon’s warehouses and Whole Foods stores in the weeks following the tech giant’s… Read More
Amazon tops 600K worldwide employees for the 1st time, a 13% jump from a year ago The number of Amazonians continues to rise, and the tech giant has hit a milestone of more than 600,000 employees… Read More
Amazon assures Bernie Sanders that warehouse worker pay will increase despite loss of stock awards and bonuses Amazon sent a letter to U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders assuring him that the company’s new $15 minimum wage and pay… Read More
TLDR: Amazon ends warehouse worker bonuses & stock awards Today’s featured stories Amazon criticized for ending warehouse bonuses and stock awards in shift to $15/hour wage Nintendo plans new… Read More
Amazon criticized for ending warehouse bonuses and stock awards in shift to $15/hour wage Not all Amazon employees are happy with the company raising their wages to at least $15 an hour. That’s because… Read More
Amazon investor and activist Nick Hanauer: ‘PR stunts are easy and cheap. Significantly raising wages for workers is not’ Just before Amazon announced it will raise employees’ minimum wage to $15 an hour, one of the company’s first investors… Read More
Bernie Sanders and other leaders laud Amazon’s $15/hour minimum wage announcement After weeks of hammering Amazon for its treatment of its warehouse workers, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders applauded Tuesday’s announcement that… Read More
Seattle tech investor’s message to the elite: Fighting Trump means forking over some wealth and paying workers fair wages Nick Hanauer has gotten rich because of an uncanny ability to predict where things are headed. He was the first… Read More
This Week in Seattle: Pike Place expansion opens, revealing stories from #SeaHomeless, a last-minute budget, and more Throwing his weight behind Jenny Durkan, Mayor Murray announces he won’t re-enter the race It’s official: Mayor Ed Murray will… Read More
