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VOTE YES
Vote YES for hazard pay for essential workers
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Throughout the pandemic, frontline workers have risked their health and safety to earn the minimum wage while the companies they work for boasted record profits. The country’s economic downturn disproportionately hurt hourly wage workers and low-income families. Through both the public health crisis and its economic fallout, it has become clear that workers’ rights need to be strengthened across the country.
Initiative 4 in Bellingham provides protections for the city’s hourly wage and gig workers. If approved, it will require hazard pay at the rate of $4 per hour during states of emergency, require employers to give good faith estimates of weekly hours at the hiring stage, and necessitate compensation for schedule changes without sufficient notice. All the policies within the measure bring the relationship between employer and employee into better balance in Bellingham.
Vote to approve City of Bellingham Initiative 4.Throughout the pandemic, frontline workers have risked their health and safety to earn the minimum wage while the companies they work for boasted record profits. The country’s economic downturn disproportionately hurt hourly wage workers and low-income families. Through both the public health crisis and its economic fallout, it has become clear that workers’ rights need to be strengthened across the country.
Initiative 4 in Bellingham provides protections for the city’s hourly wage and gig workers. If approved, it will require hazard pay at the rate of $4 per hour during states of emergency, require employers to give good faith estimates of weekly hours at the hiring stage, and necessitate compensation for schedule changes without sufficient notice. All the policies within the measure bring the relationship between employer and employee into better balance in Bellingham.
Vote to approve City of Bellingham Initiative 4.
Kaylee Galloway
Kaylee Galloway is running for Whatcom County Council to bring affordability and environmental considerations to the forefront. She is a member of the Whatcom County Climate Impact Advisory Committee.
Because of a Tim Eyman initiative, the Legislature is required to submit any bill it passes that closes tax loopholes or raises revenue to a nonbinding advisory vote. The Legislature had a historically productive 2021 session, resulting in several advisory votes appearing on the ballot. We hope the Legislature will change the law to remove these meaningless measures in the future.