Amazon and Seattle -- We are ground zero of minimum wage movement
Two big minimum wage announcements were paired on Tuesday, with Amazon saying its 350,000 full-time and seasonal workers will be paid a minimum $15 an hour, and news that the minimum wage for large employers in Seattle will rise to $16 an hour.
We started it, with the 2013 referendum in SeaTac and the 2014 Seattle task force that developed a phased-in $15-an-hour wage . . . and voters of Washington who enacted a higher statewide wage in 2016.
The Republican-run Congress in Washington, D.C., has refused even to hold hearings on the $7.20 an hour federal minimum wage that has been in effect nearly a decade.
Hiking the national minimum wage used to be bipartisan stuff, work of a Lyndon Johnson-led Democratic Congress and GOP President Eisenhower, of Democratic President Bill Clinton and the Republican Congress of Newt Gingrich.
No more.
Social change, the press for higher wages, is coming from the grass roots, or in SeaTac's case the runways.
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