Meet Rebecca

Rebecca Saldaña: A relentless advocate for working people

In 2023, Rebecca beat cancer while serving us in the State Senate.

Daughter of immigrants. Cancer survivor. Union organizer. 

Rebecca is the daughter of a Mexican immigrant who worked as a farmworker before becoming a machinist at Boeing, and a mother who was a social worker. She grew up understanding both the challenges working families face and the power of community and unions to improve people’s lives. That foundation led her to become a union organizer, working alongside janitors and farmworkers to win better wages, safer workplaces, and dignity on the job.

In the State Senate, Rebecca has delivered real results. As Chair of the Senate Labor Committee, she has passed landmark legislation to raise standards for workers and expand opportunity, including the Domestic Workers Bill of Rights, stronger wage theft enforcement, unemployment insurance for striking workers, and one of the most progressive Paid Family & Medical Leave programs in the country. She has also led efforts to rebalance our upside-down tax code—helping pass the Capital Gains Tax and advancing the Millionaires Tax so the wealthiest pay their fair share.

Rebecca has been a leader on affordability, housing, and economic justice—championing major investments in affordable housing, advancing policies to allow more housing to be built in every community, and supporting community-led solutions like land trusts and equitable development. She has also fought for working families by expanding access to childcare, investing in behavioral health, and supporting pathways into union apprenticeships and family-wage careers.

On environmental justice, Rebecca helped pass landmark laws like the Climate Commitment Act and the HEAL Act, ensuring that communities most impacted by pollution—often low-income communities and communities of color—receive the investments they deserve.

Now, Rebecca is running for King County Council because the same challenges she has taken on in Olympia—rising costs, housing instability, inequity, and a system that too often puts corporations ahead of people—are being felt acutely at the local level.

On the County Council, Rebecca will continue her fight to lower costs, build more housing, strengthen public safety through prevention and care, and ensure public investments create good union jobs. She will work to make King County a place where working families can afford to live, where communities are safe and healthy, and where every person—no matter their background—has the opportunity to thrive.

Rebecca Saldaña has spent her life organizing, legislating, and delivering results. She knows how to take on a system that is rigged against working people—and win.