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.
Paid for by Alexis for Seattle
PO Box 20084, Seattle, WA 98102