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Wednesday, September 7, 2016
LOCAL
► From Teamsters Local 117 — Stewards at Safeway dairy propel organizing win — Almost everyone working at Safeway Dairy is a union member, but there is a small group of lab technicians who have never been part of our Union. Alan Inderbitzen and Andy Peterson understand the value of their Teamsters contract and they wanted to extend the benefits and protections to the lab technicians. So they got to work.
ALSO TODAY at The Stand — Unions are working people standing together
ALSO from The Stand’s Calendar — The next hearing on Seattle’s Secure Scheduling proposal will be TODAY (Wednesday, Sept. 7) at noon at Seattle City Hall, 600 4th Ave. Join the M.L. King County Labor Council and community leaders as they to express support for the proposed legislation, with no substantive amendments.
► In the (Longview) Daily News — KapStone stalemate continues a year after strike — A year later, though, little has changed at the mill. Employees continue to work without a ratified contract two years after the old one expired. No contract talks have occurred in eight months, and no bargaining is scheduled. Labor leaders speak of a “toxic” relationship between labor and management. The firing of four picketing workers last year still is festering. And there’s still a distant possibility of another strike.
STATE GOVERNMENT
► From AP — In hearing today, state Supreme Court demands answers on school funding — The state Supreme Court ordered the state to appear in court Wednesday in the long-running McCleary school-funding case. The justices have a series of questions they want the state and the plaintiffs to answer before they decide whether to lift the $100,000 a day fine or add additional sanctions.
► In the Spokesman-Review — Finding a way to compare teacher pay, school funding tough, consultants say — Determining how much the state pays public school teachers now, and how much it should pay them in the future, is a complicated task, consultants told a special legislative panel Tuesday.
► In the P.S. Business Journal — Report: Washington’s health care environment among worst in nation — Finance website WalletHub released an analysis of states with the best and the worst health care on Tuesday and Washington came in at No. 37 overall — thanks in part to the high cost of care and accessibility to that care.
STATE ELECTIONS
► From Slog — The cost of light rail will be cheap in the long run (by Charles Mudede) — It’s not a matter of just how much it costs, but the manner in which that cost will spread across the city’s interconnected economy.
NATIONAL ELECTIONS
► From The Hill — AFL-CIO claims Trump’s union support is fading — The AFL-CIO on Wednesday released an internal poll showing Trump’s support among rank-and-file members in key states dropped from 41 percent in June to just 36 percent now.
► In the Dallas Morning News — We recommend Hillary Clinton for U.S. president (editorial) — There is only one serious candidate on the presidential ballot in November. We recommend Hillary Clinton. We don’t come to this decision easily. This newspaper has not recommended a Democrat for the nation’s highest office since before World War II — if you’re counting, that’s more than 75 years and nearly 20 elections.
► In today’s NY Times — Pay to play, Mr. Trump? (editorial) — He gave Florida’s attorney general a campaign donation days after her office said it was reviewing allegations against Trump University.
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
► From Huffington Post — Reid vows to jam up meetings until GOP moves on Supreme Court vacancy — Going on vacation doesn’t make all your problems go away, as Congress will find out as it returns from its seven-week break. The budget is still set to run out, Zika is still spreading and the Supreme Court is still missing a ninth justice.
NATIONAL
► In today’s NY Times — With Koch brothers academy, conservatives settle in for long war — If the Koch brothers have lost the battle for conservative values in 2016 to Donald Trump, they are also quietly preparing for a long war. Their secret weapon is the Grassroots Leadership Academy, intended to groom the next generation of conservative activists to shape the future of the Republican Party.
► In today’s NY Times — Driscoll’s aims to hook the berry-shopping buyer — The company plans a new marketing campaign intended to place it in the company of other big fruit brands like Dole and Chiquita.
ALSO at The Stand — Union election set at Sakuma; boycott of Driscoll’s berries ends
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