Raise the Wage needs your help

📣Here’s our weekly update for our campaign Raise the Wage Renton! (Week of May 1st):📣

 

We had another successful week of signature gathering, as we gathered over 750 signatures for the third week in a row AND crossed over 4,400 signatures!🔥

 

Our goal is 14,000 signatures by June 30th. This is doable, BUT we are currently on track for around 11,000 signatures at our current pace. To make this happen, we we need to increase our signature counts from 750 to 1,000 signatures per week.

 

To put that in perspective, a 2 hour shift usually yields around 10 signatures for volunteer, so with 25 one shift commitments or 13  two shift commitments per week, we can hit this goal!


We only have ~7 weeks left to hit our goal to qualify this initiative for the November ballot and help transfer an estimated $45 million PER YEAR from the corporate elite to Renton's working class.

 

🤔 What can I do? 🤔

  1. Sign up for a canvassing event at the links below.
  2. Bring a friend 🙂 Canvassing is always more fun with a buddy and can make a huge difference in how many signatures we can gather!
  3. Make a donation! 

 

📣Upcoming Activities📆


Check out our calendar to sign up for one of our many outreach events!

 

The recent landslide victory of a pro abortion rights State Supreme Court Justice in the fiercely contested Wisconsin elections and Brandon Johnson, a Chicago Teacher Union activist and Bernie-crat, winning Chicago’s mayoral race, defeating a conservative, tough-on-crime Democrat, makes clear, if given the option, large sections of working class people are voting for pro-working class solutions. 

 

This follows on the heels of the 2022 midterms when working people also voted for pro-working class solutions: raised the minimum wage to $15/hour in Nebraska, 6 states voted to support abortion rights in referendums, and a majority bucked their own Republican dominated state in South Dakota to extend Medicare funding. 

 

All of this makes crystal clear - if we can get Raise the Wage Renton on the ballot, we have a high likelihood of winning. 

But we are certain to lose if we don’t get on the ballot - sign up today to help gather the signatures to get on the ballot! We have a fighting chance if you sign up for a shift!
 

Friends,

In 2014 under pressure from a movement led by socialists and the local labor movement, Seattle City Council passed the $15 minimum wage - the first major city to do so.  This set off a prairie fire of other minimum wage struggles, most recently in Tukwila.  It’s been estimated that the 2014 Seattle minimum wage victory will transfer $2.5 billion over ten years from some of the biggest corporations in the world to 100,000 workers, disproportionately people of color, women, LGBTQ, and Black people. 

 

We have an opportunity to strike a blow against the billionaire class through a grassroots movement of working people and youth that can win a higher wage in Renton.  First and foremost we need to help gather the 10K+ signatures to qualify for the ballot.  This will take resources.

 

Will you kick down $25, $50, $100 for Seattle DSA to support the grassroots movements for a higher minimum wage in Renton?  

 

The low wage, no benefit corporations that dominate Renton will fight tooth and nail to prevent any attempt to stymie their ceaseless flow of profits.  They will spare no amount of money to defeat our movement.  

 

In October our chapter voted to hire two part-time staff members – a major milestone for Seattle DSA.  This month, Guillermo Zazueta began work as our new Campaign Organizer and Ty Moore stepped in as our new Communications Organizer. The two staff will help activate our 1,500 members, build in South King County, and ramp up our chapter’s communications and media. 

 

With its multi-racial working class, the need for socialists to root our movement in South King County is clear. Raise the Wage Tukwila winning by 82% showed there is an opening, and we’ve established points of support during the Gallardo campaign. 

 

But to build DSA in South King County will take serious resources.  

 

Please chip in $25, $50, $100 to strike a blow against the billionaire class!Â