HIGHER EDUCATION NEWS: ► In today’s Seattle Times — Boeing, Microsoft pledge $50 million as tuitions are set to shoot up — Microsoft and Boeing...
Stephanie Velasco, a senior at Wapato High, has been awarded the $5,500 Silme Domingo and Gene Viernes Scholarship in Labor Studies to fund her first year...
By Bryan Corliss, editor The Aero Mechanic Boeing will eliminate as many as 1,800 production jobs on its Everett 787 production lines after it gets its...
LOCAL NEWS: ► In the (Longview) Daily News —Union longshoremen rally at EGT Development offices in Portland — More than 1,000 union longshoremen and supporters...
SEATTLE — Students, workers, and residents from surrounding neighborhoods joined together at a Chase Bank in South Seattle on Saturday to call on Chase Bank to...
The American Federation of Government Employees, AFL-CIO vowed to re-double its efforts to preserve Transportation Security Administration collective bargaining after anti-union forces in the U.S. House...
LEGISLATIVE NEWS: ► At SeattlePI.com — Claws come out as community college faculty, students protest budget cuts — The new budget has community colleges losing...
Last month, the Washington State Labor Council’s executive board voted to launch a three-year fundraising campaign (2011-13) to support the state’s labor education efforts, which play...
Student outrage is growing at University of Washington after another 14 students were arrested Wednesday night as campus protests continue over the university’s food-services contract with...
LEGISLATIVE NEWS: ► In The Stranger — Screwing the pooch (and we’re the pooch) (By David Goldstein) — “I wish we did raise taxes,” said...
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