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minimum wage

Seattle report says gig worker pay law is working, countering claims by DoorDash and Uber 

Seattle’s Office of Labor Standards released its first report analyzing data from the five largest delivery platforms, finding that worker pay increased and order volume grew under the city’s gig worker minimum payment ordinance. DoorDash and outside researchers have reached different conclusions. Read More

DoorDash slams Seattle over driver deactivation law, adds new service fees

DoorDash is increasing delivery fees for customers in Seattle, citing what it calls “extreme regulations” passed by the city —… Read More

Seattle restaurant owners sound off on delivery apps as council votes on minimum wage law

It hasn’t been an easy road to recovery for many restaurant owners since the pandemic hammered their businesses. They’ve dealt… Read More

Gig workers deliver message to Seattle City Hall about the need for a minimum wage

Delivery drivers for Grubhub, Uber Eats, DoorDash, Instacart and other companies left the Seattle City Council holding the bag this… Read More

Uber, Lyft, Instacart, DoorDash form coalition in Washington state to ‘protect driver independence’

Five evenings a week, sometimes more, Carmen Figueroa gets into her car, signs into her GrubHub account and sets out… Read More

Amazon poll finds most Americans support increasing federal minimum wage to $15

Eight in 10 Americans believe the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour is too low and two thirds support… Read More

Amazon got 850K job applications in one month after announcing a $15 minimum wage

People apparently lined up to work at Amazon’s warehouses and Whole Foods stores in the weeks following the tech giant’s… Read More

Amazon tops 600K worldwide employees for the 1st time, a 13% jump from a year ago

The number of Amazonians continues to rise, and the tech giant has hit a milestone of more than 600,000 employees… Read More

Amazon assures Bernie Sanders that warehouse worker pay will increase despite loss of stock awards and bonuses

Amazon sent a letter to U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders assuring him that the company’s new $15 minimum wage and pay… Read More

TLDR: Amazon ends warehouse worker bonuses & stock awards

Today’s featured stories Amazon criticized for ending warehouse bonuses and stock awards in shift to $15/hour wage Nintendo plans new… Read More

Amazon criticized for ending warehouse bonuses and stock awards in shift to $15/hour wage

Not all Amazon employees are happy with the company raising their wages to at least $15 an hour. That’s because… Read More

Amazon investor and activist Nick Hanauer: ‘PR stunts are easy and cheap. Significantly raising wages for workers is not’

Just before Amazon announced it will raise employees’ minimum wage to $15 an hour, one of the company’s first investors… Read More

Bernie Sanders and other leaders laud Amazon’s $15/hour minimum wage announcement

After weeks of hammering Amazon for its treatment of its warehouse workers, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders applauded Tuesday’s announcement that… Read More

Seattle tech investor’s message to the elite: Fighting Trump means forking over some wealth and paying workers fair wages

Nick Hanauer has gotten rich because of an uncanny ability to predict where things are headed. He was the first… Read More

This Week in Seattle: Pike Place expansion opens, revealing stories from #SeaHomeless, a last-minute budget, and more

Throwing his weight behind Jenny Durkan, Mayor Murray announces he won’t re-enter the race It’s official: Mayor Ed Murray will… Read More

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