Raise the Wage Renton Tabling – with the Transit Riders Union

This Saturday, March 18

11-pm

Downtown Renton Library

100 Mill Ave S, Renton, WA 98057 US

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Raise The Wage Renton MORNING Tabling – QFC

This Sunday, March 19

11am - 1pm

4800 NE 4th St

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Join us at our weekly Raise The Wage Renton signature gathering table at QFC and elsewhere in Renton. We're tabling nearly everyday, every week until we get the 10,000 signatures we need! Check out the Seattle DSA calendar for more days and times.

Talk to retail/service workers and their customers, meet cool people from around King County who care about workers' standard of living, and contribute to a great cause!

UAW 4121 Solidarity Tabling

This Sunday, March 19,

12am-2pm

Corner of 42nd and University Way NE

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UAW 4121 postdocs and research scientists units both voted overwhelming to authorize a strike in response to UW administration's continuous stalling on bargaining. You can check the Seattle DSA statement in solidarity here. We have a solid number of DSA members in UAW 4121 and we are looking to start building community support for their ongoing contract fight.

Joni us for our first tabling at the UDistrict Farmer's market to talk to community members about the ongoing bargaining fight happening at UW.

STARBUCKS SOLIDARITY RALLY

Wednesday, March 22,

12Noon - 2pm

Starbucks HQ

2401 Utah Ave S,

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Starbucks is hosting a “Founders Day” event on Wednesday, March 22 to celebrate Chief Union Buster, Howard Schultz, as he leaves the company. So we’re gonna have a party that celebrates his leaving. After all he’s been overseeing some of the most prolific union busting in US history so hopefully he stays gone this time. The party will also celebrate the real founders of Starbucks’ progressive values – the workers. Come show your support!

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!