OFFICIAL DAILY ACTION FOR Tuesday, May 28th!

Tell Seattle City Council: Gig workers deserve minimum wage – hands off #PayUp!

Support Seattle gig workers (from Working Washington) 

Three months ago, the groundbreaking minimum pay ordinance for gig workers (aka the #PayUp ordinance) went into effect in Seattle. With this law we finally earn minimum wage along with flexibility and transparency protections to make sure we know how much we’ll earn and can work without fear of deactivation. And already the law is making a big impact – we are seeing higher guaranteed pay, less reliance on tips, and it’s easier than ever to choose the jobs that work for us.

The app corporations like DoorDash, UberEats, and Instacart are lashing out BIG time, squeezing workers, customers, and restaurants alike. Despite years of record profits, they’ve been bending over backwards to try to get out of paying their workers minimum wage — tacking on steep new fees, making it harder to tip, generating anti-worker media coverage, and pressuring our city council to repeal the law.

Under Council President Sara Nelson’s leadership, the council is considering gutting the gig worker minimum wage law. Through a rushed, closed-door process that excludes workers, the council is ramming through a proposal written by app corporations that would re-establish subminimum wage for workers and destroy all of our bare-minimum workplace standards that we won.

Don’t let the apps divide us – tell City Council: we know minimum wage for gig workers is good for Seattle! Visit https://actionnetwork.org/letters/protect-gig-worker-minimum-wage. Fill out the form to send an email to council members now.