LOCAL ► In today’s (Longview) Daily News — Port protest leads to trespassing citations for dozens of longshore workers –About 100 union dock workers, including...
SEATTLE — The Seattle Post Office plans to close all of the downtown Seattle USPS mailrooms located inside big downtown buildings and it is causing quite...
With free trade agreements between the United States and Panama, South Korea and Colombia set to hit the congressional floor as soon as this month, AFL-CIO...
CAREENING TOWARD THE CLIFF ► In The Hill — Labor angered by Obama’s willingness to cut Social Security in debt ceiling deal — President Obama’s...
UPDATE (July 8): The free trade agreements with South Korea, Colombia and Panama cleared initial committee hurdles in Congress on July 7, but a party-line clash...
The Alliance for Retired Americans and Social Security Works – Washington have distributed the following urgent Action Alert in response to news reports that President Obama...
The 2011 Convention of the Washington State Labor Council, the state’s largest union organization which represents more than 500 union organizations with 400,000 rank-and-file members, will...
TRADE ► From Reuters — U.S. trade bills advance, but clash clouds future — U.S. trade deals with South Korea, Colombia and Panama cleared initial...
STATE GOVERNMENT ► From AP — New round of layoffs begin in state government — The heaviest reductions are taking place at the Department of...
By John Burbank This week we celebrated our nation’s 235th birthday. That birth was announced in the Declaration of Independence, which asserted that “… all men...
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