Advocates renew call for living wages on Bellingham waterfront

Environmentalists and labor leaders say they expect to keep on pressing for specific language in waterfront development plans to ensure that the estimated thousands of new jobs there are "living wage."

At a Thursday, March 28, public hearing before the Bellingham Planning Commission, living wage advocates spoke up again, as they had at a similar meeting a week before. Mark Lowry, president of the Northwest Washington Central Labor Council, said the labor-environment coalition is going to keep up the pressure on that issue as waterfront plans move from the Bellingham Planning Commission to City Council.