Minimum wage

King County Councilmember Girmay Zahilay is calling for a minimum wage of $18.99 in unincorporated King County.

After successful local campaigns in recent years, Seattle, SeaTac and Tukwila all have a minimum wage that hovers around $19 dollars an hour. Organizers in Renton are hoping their city will be next.

An initiative to increase the minimum hourly wage in Tukwila, Washington, by more than $3 has qualified for the November ballot. The initiative process will move to the Tukwila City Council, which can pass the initiative into law or send it to the ballot.

There’s a new push by labor rights advocates to set a minimum pay standard for people who work for delivery apps like DoorDash and Instacart. The national Pay Up campaign aims to ensure delivery app workers get paid at least $15 an hour, plus the cost of mileage and other expenses.

The private prison company The GEO Group has been ordered to pay Washington state nearly $4.5 million in legal fees, after the state sued to force the company to pay detainees at its immigration lockup in Tacoma minimum wage for work they perform there.

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Legislatures and city halls are battling over who gets to set the minimum wage, and increasingly, the states are winning. Business groups argue that complying with disparate city laws is too complex.

It has taken years since the Great Recession, but wages are showing signs of climbing — though not very quickly. Economists say there are reasons to believe wage growth could continue into 2017.

Washington voters have approved a statewide hike of the state's minimum wage.Initiative 1433 will raise the hourly wage by roughly $4 over three years, to…

Corrected on October 11, 2016 - An earlier version of this post said Washington has the nation's 42nd-highest unemployment rate. In fact, Washington has…