A RESOLUTION supporting the establishment of a dignified and robust wage for employees performing work in cities across America, as part of a national mobilization on April 15th to promote higher wages for all working families.
Adoption of other resolutions. Agenda item number nine. Resolution 31575. Supporting the establishment of a dignified and robust wage for employees performing work in cities across America as part of a national mobilization on April 15th to promote higher wages for all working families. Introduced April six, 2015. Thank you, Councilmember Lakota. Thank you. This resolution is part of a national mobilization. It's going to be occurring April 15th, whereby workers across the country will be out demonstrating, but also making public statements, as well as public officials supporting the establishment of dignified and robust wages for employees. The April 15th event will involve 60,000 people in the fast food industry alone, and they will be involved in walkouts in many instances in 200 cities across the country. Should also point out that in Washington state there will be 1000 workers that will be doing these activities and will be in cities across the state such as Spokane , Pasco, Yakima, Olympia, SeaTac. And it's more than just fast food workers. This will also involve workers that are adjunct professor is in fact myself in controversy while we're at a assembly of students and their drunk professors not too long ago at Seattle University who wanted to be recognized as a bargaining unit as well as other people working in this industry, the childcare providers and home care workers nationally. If going back to just looking at the fast food industry, there are roughly 2.5 million workers in that industry and about half of them earn less than $15 an hour. One of the major problems our country faces is a lack of the ability to sustain a vibrant economy. Just last month, the employment rate actually was lower than it had been in the previous year on a monthly basis. And one of the reasons is that people are just not earning enough money to actually go out and support the economy. So it's critical that we start recognizing that the concentration of too much money in too few hands has, in fact hurting the entire country's economy. So this resolution is a way of saying that we want our workers to receive a dignified wage and get the economy moving again. Thank you. Thank you. Councilmember Clark. I just couldn't help myself. It's a good resolution. That's okay. Thank you. All in favor of adopting resolution 31575 Vote I II oppose vote no. The resolution is unanimously adopted in the chair will sign it. Is there any other business to come before the council? Councilmember Clark, we're going to remove your May 11 excuse absence. Okay, great. I thought you would make it come back. Yeah. Thanks very much and will be adjourned.