Hands Off Seattle’s Minimum Wage Canvass with Restaurant Workers United
Tomorrow! Tues, Sept 3rd, 5:30pm
In front of Café on the Ave
(the corner of University Ave NE & NE 42nd St)
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Restaurant owners are pushing the Seattle mayor and City Council to permanently cut 200,000 Seattle tipped workers’ wages. Seattle became the first major city in the US to pass the $15 minimum wage in 2014, and many other cities have since followed suit. If the two-tiered wage system is preserved, it will embolden lobbyists in other cities to go after minimum wage legislation. Workers kept Seattle businesses afloat during the pandemic and continue to face steep cost of living increases year after year. For a city with 11 billionaires and over 50,000 millionaires, this raise for restaurant workers is long overdue.
Join Restaurant Workers United and Seattle DSA as we canvass restaurants in U District on Tuesday, September 3rd. RSVP here.
We’ll be meeting at Cafe on the Ave at 5:30 PM, along with DSA members postering for the fall Socialist Job Fair!
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Seattle DSA’s Working Group SOS – Save Our Schools invites you to...
How to Stop School Closures?
The Fight to Stop Closures in Seattle From 2009 to 2024
This Thursday, Sept 5, 6pm
Hybrid meeting: At the Beacon Hill Library – and Online
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Seattle DSA’s Working Group SOS – Save Our Schools invites you to our meeting with speakers from the Social Equality Educators, the rank-and-file caucus at that time in Seattle’s Education Association, who fought against school closures in Seattle in 2009 that were almost all reversed, to help us draw some conclusions for our effort to stop the planned school closures in 2024.
The plan to close 20 out of 70 elementary schools in Seattle for the school year 2025/26 is the largest attack on public education in the nation since the school closures in Chicago 2013.
We will also discuss updates on the school district plans in 2024 – and how we plan to fight back.
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General Election Kickoff Canvass for Shaun Scott
This Saturday, Sept 7 11AM
Montlake Playfield (1618 E Calhoun St)
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We’re kicking off our campaign for the general election! Help us elect Democratic Socialist member and candidate Shaun Scott to Olympia.Thanks to volunteers like you, we did great in the primary election election, with Shaun winning 59% of the vote!
We can’t stop yet though – business and landlord interest groups can now consolidate around pro-corporate candidate Andrea Suarez. We can beat Andrea Suarez and her wealthy donors, but only with mass action. Join us to get the word out about Shaun and win this general election.
We’ll be meeting at Montlake Playfield at 11am. No experience required, training will be provided on site and you will be paired with experienced volunteers!
Who is Shaun Scott? Read more about him here.
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STRIKE READY FOR IAM 751 MACHINISTS!
On July 17th, between 20,000 and 25,000 from the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace workers local 751 (IAM 751) packed T-Mobile Stadium for a historic strike authorization vote, which they passed by 99.9%.
On September 12th, 2024, the contract between the 32,000 machinists in IAM 751 and the Boeing Company will expire. Right now Machinists are in the process of bargaining with Boeing, with economic demands as well as demands around safety for the flying public.
It is up to the Machinists to decide whether they want to strike or not. But we want to send a strong message that the community has their backs. Should the machinists go on strike, will you commit to joining them for a shift on the picket line in Seattle, Everett, Renton, or Frederickson?
Why is this important?
The biggest factory in the world is right here in the Puget Sound in Everett. Boeing Machinists in IAM 751 are part of one of the biggest labor unions in the region, and have a lot of power to change society, so it's important that we stand in solidarity with them as they exercise it.
Let's stand in solidarity with the machinists, and show up for them on the picket line!
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