Restaurant lobbyists are pushing the Seattle mayor and City Council to permanently cut Seattle’s tipped workers’ wages in the coming weeks. Seattle became the first major city in the US to pass the $15 minimum wage in 2014, and many other cities have since followed suit. If the two-tiered wage system is preserved, it will embolden lobbyists in other cities to go after minimum wage legislation. Workers kept Seattle businesses afloat during the pandemic and continue to face steep cost of living increases year after year. For a city with 11 billionaires and over 50,000 millionaires, this raise for restaurant workers is long overdue.

Join Restaurant Workers United and Seattle DSA as we canvass restaurants in U District on Tuesday, September 3rd.

We’ll be meeting at Cafe on the Ave at 5:30 PM, along with DSA members postering for the fall Socialist Job Fair!