Marchers gathered in Seattle to advocate for immigrants' and workers' rights on May Day.
A march co-sponsored by four Seattle labor organizations, El Comité, UFCW 3000, MLK Labor and the May 1st Action Coalition, began at Judkins Park on Dearborn Street with the route finishing downtown. Read more
The union representing 25,000 grocery employees in Puget Sound voted to ratify their contract, bringing many workers higher wages and increased funding to health care and pension plans.
Union members with United Food and Commercial Workers 3000 will see wage increases of $4 to $9 an hour for the most veteran workers during the term of the agreement. The contract eliminates lower pay scales in certain departments like deli, bakery, fuel, and e-commerce and includes a "stronger ability of store-level safety committees to address serious safety issues, beyond just COVID protections," according to a UFCW news release.
Sam Dancy, a front-end supervisor for the QFC store in West Seattle's Westwood Village, is also a shop steward for the union and helped negotiate the terms of the contract. Read more
It's been a year and a half since electric scooters hit Seattle. An evaluation in early April from the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) found riders took more than 1.4 million trips from October 2020 through September 2021.
The free-floating scooter share pilot launched in October 2020. Since then, more than 260,000 riders have taken more than 1.4 million trips. An SDOT survey of 5,000 riders revealed 70% of riders weren't following one of the city's main rules for the scooters. Read more
On Saturday morning in Seattle's Beacon Hill neighborhood, the House Our Neighbors coalition launched signature-gathering on a petition for Initiative 135 (I-135). If passed, the proposed ballot measure would create a "Seattle Social Housing Developer" to obtain and operate publicly-owned, permanently affordable housing.
The "developer" would be a board made up of renters and professionals in fields such as green development and urban planning. Read more
A suspect is in custody after he allegedly shot a man he mistakenly believed was shoplifting at a Gig Harbor grocery store on Saturday night.
Gig Harbor police officers responded to reports of a shooting at a grocery store on the 4800 block of Point Fosdick Drive around 11:20 p.m. When officers arrived, they found a 40-year-old man suffering from an injury to the neck. He was conscious and alert, according to the Gig Harbor Police Department (GHPD).
A 70-year-old man identified himself as the shooter and immediately cooperated with officers, according to the GHPD. Officers took a 9mm handgun from the suspect. Read more
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