So sure it’s a little bit of an icky starting place. But if spiders have the capacity to eat all the humans in a year if they just got organized, can you imagine what workers could accomplish if we all worked together?

Well that’s what Working Washington is all about. And there’s nobody else around that does what we do, arachnid or primate.

Don’t get me wrong, I know there are a lot of good organizations out there that do a lot of good work and send out a lot of emails too. Especially this time of year.

But nobody else is building worker power in the fields and packing houses of the Yakima Valley. Nobody else is bringing nannies and house cleaners together to campaign for a breakthrough domestic workers bill of rights. Nobody else is holding businesses accountable for misleading minimum wage surcharges and changing the conversation about wealth, inequality, and the value of work.

Nobody else has racked up anything like our record of breakthrough victories that transform the working lives of hundreds of thousands of people at a time and spark nationwide change.

And I bet nobody else compared you to a spider, either.

But make no mistake: we may like our spider metaphors but we’re about more than sitting on tuffets and climbing up water-spouts over here. Working Washington fast food strikers sparked the fight that won Seattle’s first-in-the-nation $15 minimum wage. Working Washington baristas led the successful campaign for secure scheduling in Seattle, and our members across the state helped drive forward Initiative 1433 to raise the minimum wage and provide paid sick days. We successfully moved Amazon to sever ties with the right-wing lobby group ALEC and improve conditions in their sweatshop warehouses, and got Starbucks to address inequities in their corporate parental leave policy. And we made history once again with the landmark statewide paid family leave law that passed earlier this year.

Help us continue to build power for workers across the state: join us by making an end-of-year contribution to Working Washington today.

Thanks,

Sage, Working Washington

P.S. No, you probably don’t need to google exterminators, it’ll be ok.