The following is an excerpt from the 2013 Legislative Agenda for the Washington State Labor Council, AFL-CIO, the largest labor organization in the state. OLYMPIA (Jan....
By PRAMILA JAYAPAL (Second of a two-part column. See the first.) Imagine that you have just arrived in your new country. It’s cold here and your...
Salvadoran unions have put out a call for cross-border solidarity in their struggle against a Public Private Partnership (PPP) law that threatens to give corporations even...
AUBURN (Jan. 15, 2013) — In federal mediation last week, Teamsters Local 117, the union representing 168 warehouse workers and drivers on strike at United Natural...
Tuesday, January 15, 2013 STATE GOVERNMENT ► In today’s Seattle Times — Power play puts Senate in Republican hands — Democratic Sens. Rodney Tom...
ELLENSBURG — The Washington State Labor Council, AFL-CIO, is urging all union members and community supporters in the Ellensburg area to show solidarity with the nurses...
Monday, January 14, 2013 BOEING ► In Saturday’s (Everett) Herald — SPEEA: Strike, now ‘likely,’ would disrupt 787 probe — Boeing engineers and technical...
The following by Marcus Sweetser, an intern at the Economic Opportunity Institute, is crossposted from the EOI’s Washington Policy Watch blog: The nationwide flu outbreak has...
The following letter by Jeff Johnson, President of the Washington State Labor Council, AFL-CIO, is being sent to the 500-plus union organizations affiliated with the WSLC....
The following was posted by Teamsters Local 117: OLYMPIA (Jan. 11, 2013) — Hundreds of Teamster correctional employees, their families, community allies, and other Teamster members,...
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