WORKER PROTECTIONS WE NEED
Seattle’s leadership on improving wages, workplace protections, and other advancements has helped shape state and even federal policies– we must continue innovating with a focus on practical outcomes that stabilize our workforce, provide career advancement, and address the affordability challenges of living and working in our city.
15.9%
EARNINGS GAP BETWEEN UNION AND NON-UNION WORKERS
18%
OF WASHINGTON WORKERS
ARE UNION MEMBERS
AS A VOICE FOR YOUNGER WORKERS WITH A
COMMITMENT TO ALL WORKING PEOPLE, I WILL
- Continue advocating for living wages and affordable, quality healthcare — including gender-affirming care and reproductive care — for all workers.
- Improve access to good jobs for low-income communities and people of color historically left out of economic prosperity
- Ensure protections for LGBTQIA+ workers
- Work to end discrimination and exploitation of immigrant workers
- Support the right of workers to organize and seek union representation
- Support job creation in clean energy, including EV infrastructure, conversion to clean home heating and cooling, and other areas where we can grow jobs and provide career opportunities.
- Ensure that the Office of Fair Labor Standards is resourced to be able continue to protect the rights of workers.
- Protect City unions' contracts from rollback or opposition.
- Promote Community Workforce Agreements, Project Labor Agreements, and other fair wage and local hire standards.
- Promote apprenticeship utilization and other entry points to bring women, BIPOC, and non-traditional workers into highly paid skilled trades careers.
- Advocate and prioritize funding for frontline staff in human services work to advance pay equity and support workforce stabilization.