The battle pitting preschool union leaders against city councilmembers just got hotter. Union leaders behind I-107, which mandates a $15 minimum wage and more training for early education workers, filed a lawsuit against the city and county on Wednesday. The suit claims that officials seek “to deny voters of a clean vote on I-107.”In June, the Seattle City Council decided in a 6-3 vote that I-107 contradicts an existing city-backed ballot initiative to expand preschool access to 2,000 low-income children, KPLU reports. That meant that voters would have to decide between the two measures, rather than approving both. Backers of I-107 wrote in their court filings that I-107 and the city’s preschool measure “provide different solutions to different problems."But Mayor Ed Murray says that boosting wages immediately would counter the $15 minimum wage deal he made with businesses leaders. The city also points out that I-107 doesn’t identify funding sources, while the preschool measure includes a $58 million property hike. — M.L.
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Berit Anderson was Managing Editor at Crosscut, following tech, culture, media and politics. She founded Crosscut's Community Idea Lab. Previously community manager of the Tribune Company’
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