(The Center Square) – Tacoma, Pierce County and Pierce County Auditor Linda Farmer are being sued by United Food and Commercial Workers Local 367, Tacoma for All, and the Tacoma Democratic Socialists of America. They allege in the lawsuit filed on Tuesday that the city and county did not act promptly to ensure a citizen’s initiative, which aims to establish a “workers’ bill of rights,” appeared on the November ballot. The initiative seeks to raise the minimum wage to $20 and require advance notice for scheduling changes. Specifically, the complaint alleges that Pierce County illegally delayed the verification of signatures for the ballot initiative, and then Tacoma used the delay to illegally run out the clock beyond the Aug. 5 deadline to place the measure on November’s general election ballot. Initiative 2 would increase Tacoma’s minimum wage from $16.66 to $20 per hour in a phased-in approach. On Aug. 8, the Tacoma City Council unanimously voted to forward Initiative 2 to the city auditor rather than adopt it and put it on the November ballot. However, the council missed the Pierce County deadline to place the measure on the ballot by three days. Prior to the council’s vote to send