
Originally posted January 1, 2010 Click here to download the PDF
The Seattle area hosted a number of fast food strikes over the summer, as well as follow-up strikes targeting Subway. In recent local elections, unions and alt-labor groups backed a $15 minimum wage initiative which Jonathan Martin of The Seattle Times noted would encourage union organizing.
Did you know that 35.6 percent of union workers in Washington would give up their union membership if they could …