Local labor and activist groups are suing both Tacoma and Pierce County, claiming that government officials illegally blocked a citizen-led initiative that would raise the city’s minimum wage to $20.
The initiative was expected to appear on the November ballot.
“The United Food and Commercial Workers Local 367, along with Tacoma For All and the Tacoma Democratic Socialists of America, are saying that the city did not act with the reasonable promptness required to ensure that residents could vote on an initiative this November; they think it’s fundamentally unfair what they did,” KIRO host Jake Skorheim explained. “What do you think is going on there in Tacoma?”…