Friday, July 10, 2015 STATE GOVERNMENT ► In today’s Spokesman-Review — Senate OKs delaying I-1351 — With no votes to spare, the Senate on...
The following is from Latino Advocacy: BURLINGTON, Wash. (July 10, 2015) — Recent tensions over increasingly difficult and varying standards to make a minimum wage has...
Thursday, July 9, 2015 TRADE ► From The Hill — Obama aims to heal Dem wounds — Obama invited all Senate Democrats to the...
SEATTLE (July 9, 2015) — Lori Province, Field Mobilization Director for the Washington State Labor Council, AFL-CIO, has announced that she will retire in November. She...
Wednesday, July 8, 2015 STATE GOVERNMENT ► In the PSBJ — Quincy could get 2 or 3 more data centers after lawmakers pass tax...
OLYMPIA (July 8, 2015) — Gov. Jay Inslee signed the 2015-17 General Government contract with the Washington Federation of State Employees, AFSCME Council 28 on Monday,...
Tuesday, July 7, 2015 STATE GOVERNMENT ► In today’s Seattle Times — Why state Democrats held up a budget deal over I-1351 (by. Sen....
BURLINGTON — After work stoppages on the first few days of the blueberry harvest, farmworkers at Sakuma Brothers Farms continue their struggle for fair treatment and...
Monday, July 6, 2015 STATE GOVERNMENT ► From AFSCME — Coordinated actions win raises, stop state shutdown — It took thousands of public employees...
SEATAC — AFL-CIO Executive Vice President Tefere Gebre is among the special guest speakers scheduled to appear at the 2015 Convention of the Washington State Labor...
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