Friday, June 14, 2013 STATE GOVERNMENT ► In today’s Spokesman-Review — Legislature approves estate-tax change — Minutes before midnight, the Senate passed a change...
By SEN. STEVE CONWAY (June 14, 2013) — Members of the Senate Republican-Majority Caucus want to alter the state’s worker compensation program through Senate Bill 5127....
Thursday, June 13, 2013 STATE GOVERNMENT ► In today’s Seattle Times — Part-time school, college staff may lose health benefits — Thousands of part-time...
OLYMPIA (June 13, 2013) — The following open letter to the State Legislature opposing SB 5127, the Republican-controlled Senate bill that would expand lump-sum settlements in...
AUBURN, Wash. (June 13, 2013) — Since March 24, members of the International Association of Machinists Local Lodge 79 have been out on strike at Belshaw...
Wednesday, June 12, 2013 STATE GOVERNMENT ► At PubliCola — Inslee announces second special session, blasts Republicans — Gov. Jay Inslee denounced five “ideological”...
WASHINGTON, D.C. (June 12, 2013) — As debate over immigration reform begins on the Senate floor, Washington State Labor Council President Jeff Johnson and other working...
VANCOUVER (June 12, 2013) — Union delegates who plan to attend the Washington State Labor Council 2013 convention here — plus all Clark County-area union members...
OLYMPIA (June 11, 2013) — Governor Jay Inslee notified state legislators today that he was immediately calling a third session of the Legislature — which will...
Tuesday, June 11, 2013 STATE GOVERNMENT ► In today’s Olympian — Lawmakers, ‘out in space,’ need 3rd session — The philosophical gap between a...
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