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Thurston Chamber Members –

Please join the Thurston County Chamber on Friday, October 31, at 8:00am via Zoom, as we learn about the opportunities and challenges contained in a proposed set of new local labor laws with Will Callicoat, President, MultiCare Capital Medical Center & Thurston County Market Leader. We’ll discuss and review the types of questions MultiCare Capital Medical Center raised in their internal review and assessment of Proposition No.1. 

This November, voters within the City of Olympia will be asked to consider enacting a new chapter in the Olympia Municipal Code as an “Ordinance Concerning Labor Standards for Certain Employees” to establish labor standards for work scheduling, a minimum wage, a safe workplace environment, and other labor regulations. This proposal, also known as Olympia Proposition No.1, will be on the 2025 general election ballot. The proposition expresses the following intent:

• Workers deserve fair and secure scheduling, with sufficient advanced notice of their work schedules, so they can plan their lives and family budgets.
• Workers deserve a fair opportunity to move into full time work when those hours become available, and those additional hours should be distributed in a reasonable, transparent, and non-discriminatory manner.
• Workers deserve a fair wage for their work. The initiative raises the minimum wage so that Olympia workers get paid fairly, like employees in other major Puget Sound cities, and allows the minimum wage to increase with the cost of living.
• Workers deserve a safe workplace environment. The Workers Bill of Rights protects workers through basic safety planning and precautions.
• Workers deserve to know their rights and have tools to enforce them.

Please join us this Friday, October 31, at 8:00am when we’ll hear from Will Callicoat as he outlines what specific parts of the proposed ordinance created questions or uncertainties for one of our largest employers in Olympia.

Register to attend this free info session by clicking HERE.