Just wanted to make sure you didn’t miss this very interesting news: The Target Corporation announced they’re raising their store minimum wage all the way to $15/hour by 2020.

Not just in Seattle. (We already won that!)

But nationwide!

When fast-food workers with Working WA first went out on strike for $15, nobody really thought this is where we’d be just a few years later: one of the largest retailers in the country is choosing to raise wages to $15/hr nationwide. Every time you look, you see that this movement just keeps getting so much bigger, so much faster than anyone could have expected.

But it also raises a question: WHY did Target make this move? What do you think has gotten into them?

May 2014: Workers from the downtown Seattle Target walk out on strike for $15.

Seriously, though. Why?

Why was Target happy to pay the minimum wage all this time, and now suddenly they’re lifting up the whole country?

Maybe they don’t really have a choice, because workers are refusing to settle for lower wages. Maybe they just figure higher wages are coming at this point and it’s inevitable. Maybe they’ve realized it’s GOOD for business when more people have more money.

Or maybe they just want the good PR?

Click here to tell us why YOU think Target is raising their wages to $15/hr.

Call me cynical, but even if it’s just a PR move, I think that’s a good thing! I think it’s incredible progress that the Fight for $15 has changed the landscape so dramatically that huge corporations like Target feel like they have to raise wages to get a good media hit. And as a supporter of Working Washington, you had more than a little bit to do with it.

It takes a movement to make change. And once we get moving, incredible things happen. If you haven’t already, now is a good time to donate and support the movement that helped make all this happen. Click here if you’d like to donate today and help us keep getting big wins like this for workers.

Thanks for being a part of it,
Working Washington

Source: Target’s move to $15 an hour ‘blows up’ this myth about raising minimum wage, CNBC, September 27, 2017