By JOHN BURBANK (Jan. 26, 2017) — Nobody likes broken promises. And for the last year, there’s been a lot of promises about lifting up working...
Thursday, January 26, 2017 IMMIGRATION ► From The Hill — Trump signs orders on border wall, immigration enforcement ► In today’s NY Times —...
SEATTLE (Jan. 26, 2017) — Jeff Johnson, President of the Washington State Labor Council, AFL-CIO, issued the following statement in response to President Trump’s Executive Orders...
Wednesday, January 25, 2017 LOCAL ► From AP — Boeing sees more airliner deliveries, lower defense revenue — The Boeing Co. beat Wall Street...
OLYMPIA (Jan. 25, 2017) — The House Labor and Workplace Standards Committee heard compelling testimony Tuesday from advocates, workers and business owners in support of two...
Tuesday, January 24, 2017 LOCAL ► In today’s Seattle Times — Misnamed ‘right-to-work’ laws exploit workers (by Linda Averill and Kirk Duncan) — Jeff...
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Jan. 24, 2017) — President Donald Trump formally abandoned the embattled Trans-Pacific Partnership on Monday, a proposed 12-nation deal on trade and corporate rights...
Monday, January 23, 2017 WOMEN’S MARCHES ► In the Seattle Times — Record Seattle crowd asserts women’s rights: ‘Trump has galvanized everybody’ —...
By LYNNE DODSON “Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution, but more usually...
By JEFF JOHNSON SEATTLE (Jan. 23, 2017) — Over this past weekend, the United States once again witnessed the peaceful democratic transition of power from one...
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