Posted on 11/20/2014 7:01:15 PM PST by steve86
Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant said Thursday that even though she spent five hours in jail the previous night, after a protest outside Alaska Airlines headquarters in SeaTac, her push to raise the minimum wage for airport workers to $15 will continue.
Speaking from her office, Sawant said “last night’s action was really inspiring for everybody.”
“We have to keep up the pressure,” Sawant said. “We’ve seen how big business has been on the offensive against workers rights. We need to defend our victories and fight for $15 an hour for all workers.”
Sawant was booked into the South Correctional Entity Regional Jail in Des Moines at 5:37 p.m. for investigation of disorderly conduct and released at 10:29 p.m., according to jail staff. SeaTac police arrested the council member and three others — a cargo handler, a former airport worker and a church pastor — because they were standing in the roadway.
The arrests were the culmination of a protest organized by Working Washington, which has been pushing for a higher minimum wage. On Wednesday night, about 100 Seattle-Tacoma International Airport workers and supporters gathered in SeaTac. The protesters then walked across International Boulevard and chanted in front of Alaska Airlines headquarters. Sawant and the three others were arrested after police told the group that anyone not on the sidewalk would be taken into custody.
Speaking to reporters on Wednesday, Sawant said it was her “obligation as a public servant” to exercise civil disobedience and risk arrest.
“This is how you show political leadership,” she said on Wednesday.
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I’m thinking “guilty”
The Peoples Party of Seattle wants everyone on a Minimum Wage ,except her
So, by my calculations @ $15 an hr., that would be $75 worth of her “time” in jail. Nice and well worth it to have her shut-up for that period of time.
Someone needs to go look up how much Sawant pays her staff....
I agree. In fact, I think she should go stand in the road some more.
If this really works and employers can still be profitable, then she needs to take all of her money and open a McDonald’s or the equivalent, and pay every person $15 an hour to show us all how it works.
If it really worked, wouldn’t they be doing this?
When the Boeing employees’ union was in protracted negotiations with management over a new contract, Sawant spoke at a rally in downtown Seattle and told the union members that they should take over the Boeing factories by force and change their production from making weapons of war to peaceful products like buses.
Now she wants everyone to take her well reasoned economic advice on setting the minimum wage. How could she be wrong? (sarc)
the next generation of Obamists coming up.
All workers? Including dipstick council members?
Is she okay with being capped at $15/hour?
The money has to come from someplace.
A complicit media enables her. The enemy within.
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