By DAVID GROVES SEATTLE (Aug. 28, 2013) — Monday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal included two stories about jobs and wages that provide a concise...
Tuesday, August 27, 2013 LOCAL ► At SeattleTimes.org — Judge: SeaTac petition for $15 minimum wage invalid — The proposed ordinance was placed on...
The following is from AFL-CIO Now: Corporations are trying to hijack a trade agreement that is currently being negotiated in secret. It’s called the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP),...
Thousands of Puget Sound-area grocery store workers will conduct informational picketing outside dozens of stores on Wednesday, Aug. 28. Members of the United Food and Commercial...
SEATTLE — Fast-food and other low-wage workers from McDonalds, Burger King, Taco Bell, Subway and other chains across Seattle will participate in a first-ever national strike...
Monday, August 26, 2013 LOCAL ► In the (Everett) Herald — End the delay: Export terminal mean jobs (by UTU’s Herb Krohn) — The state...
TACOMA — Some 40,000 breadwinners in Tacoma — or 2 in 5 workers — have no paid sick leave. That means when they or their children...
SEATTLE (Aug. 26, 2013) — Licensed Massage Practitioners at the Seattle-based Massage Bar, Inc. voted last week by an overwhelming margin to form a union with...
Wednesday, August 21, 2013 LOCAL ► In today’s Skagit Valley Herald — Berry pickers call for boycott of Sakuma products — Workers from Sakuma...
SEATTLE (Aug. 21, 2013) — Since The Stand first reported that controversial Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) would be headlining a Seattle fundraiser for a local...
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