SEATTLE — Funeral services for Washington State Labor Council Vice President Jacquie Jones-Walsh, a longtime member of the Washington Federation of State Employees (WFSE) and State President of the Coalition of Labor Union Women, will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, April 27 at the Greater Glory Ministries, 6419 Martin Luther King Jr. Way S. in […]
OLYMPIA (April 23, 2019) — Nine years after the fatal explosion and fire at the Tesoro refinery in Anacortes, the state’s Department of Labor and Industries will soon give formal notice of rulemaking to strengthen the regulations aimed at preventing catastrophic explosions in Washington state’s refineries. The BlueGreen Alliance and the Washington State Labor Council, […]
The following is from the Teamsters union: EVERETT (April 23, 2019) — Earlier this month, drivers at Durham School Services in Everett voted by more than a three-to-one margin to join Teamsters Local 38. The 127 workers are part of a growing movement of drivers and monitors who are organizing with the union because of […]
Each year on Worker Memorial Day, April 28, working people throughout the world remember those who were hurt or killed on the job, and renew our struggle for safe workplaces. “In recent decades, we’ve made great progress in making workplaces safer and protecting workers. Still, too many workers are being killed and injured on the […]
SEATTLE — All union members and their families are cordially invited on Memorial Day weekend to join the Museum of Flight for the momentous opening and dedication of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Park. The dedication ceremony will be at 11 a.m. on Saturday, May 25 at the park located behind the museum’s Aviation Pavilion, 9305 […]
SEATTLE (April 17, 2019) — Washington State Labor Council Vice President Jacquie Jones-Walsh, a longtime member of the Washington Federation of State Employees/AFSCME and State President of the Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW), has passed away. In addition to representing CLUW on the WSLC Executive Board and being active in WFSE Local 843, Jones-Walsh […]
The following is from SAG-AFTRA: SEATTLE — Join SAG-AFTRA members and supporters Tuesday, April 16 at noon for a Twitter blast to show solidarity with KUOW workers at the bargaining table. More than a year after staff at KUOW-FM 94.9, a National Public Radio member station in Seattle, overwhelmingly elected to join together with SAG-AFTRA, […]
We pay our taxes. Why don’t they? An estimated $2.6 billion in Social Security, Medicare, state income and federal taxes went unpaid in the construction industry in 2017. Some 1.2 million construction workers were paid off the books by employers, while another 300,000 were misclassified as independent contractors, in part to avoid paying taxes. The […]
Seattle Labor Chorus plans special performance at WSLC in Seattle SEATTLE — More than 20 members of the Seattle Labor Chorus will reenact their play, “Labor Will Feed the People,” as part of the 100-year celebration of the Seattle General Strike and a fundraiser to benefit Puget Sound Advocates for Retirement Action (PSARA). Experience […]
PORTLAND, Ore. (April 8, 2019) — All are invited to attend the 2019 conference of the Pacific Northwest Labor History Association on May 3-5 at the University Place Hotel & Conference Center in Portland. PNLHA conferences are a unique gathering of workers, unionists, scholars and community activists. Its May gathering will be an opportunity to […]
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