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Friday, September 13, 2019
ELECTIONS
ALSO at The Stand — WA Fairness to voters: Approve I-1000 / R88
► In today’s Washington Post — Democratic candidates clash over health care, immigration and foreign policy — The debate highlighted key questions of whether the party should pursue policies of sweeping change or a more incremental return to normalcy in the wake of Trump.
THAT WASHINGTON
► From Bloomberg Law — NLRB’s new standard ups ante for union, employer negotiating — Labor contracts and the negotiations required to reach them may become even more complicated after the federal labor board adopted a new standard for evaluating the legality of unilateral changes to union workers’ job terms.
ALSO at The Stand — Trump’s border-wall military cuts hit home at Naval Base Kitsap
► In the Seattle Times — Trump’s wall shortchanges military projects — including in Puget Sound (editorial)
BOEING
LOCAL
► In today’s (Longview) Daily News — County OKs shoreline permits for Kalama methanol plant — The proposed Kalama methanol plant took another step forward Wednesday after Cowlitz County affirmed that the project should get the shoreline permits as previously granted, according to a county letter to the state Department of Ecology.
THIS WASHINGTON
► In today’s News Tribune — Pierce County state representative named chairwoman of busy House committee — The Democratic caucus on Thursday elected Rep. Christine Kilduff (D-University Place) to succeed Speaker-designate Laurie Jinkins of Tacoma as chair of one of the busiest House committees, the Civil Rights & Judiciary Committee.
NATIONAL
► From CNN — 47,000 grocery workers in California avert a strike with new contracts — Around 47,000 union workers (UFCW) at Albertsons, Ralphs and other grocery chains in southern California reached an agreement with the companies Thursday on new contracts that they say improve wages and benefits. After six months of talks, the deal avoids what would have been the largest private-sector strike since 74,000 GM employees walked off the job in 2007… The new contracts met a list of union demands. They include wage increases between $1.55 and $1.65 an hour for workers over the course of the three-year contract, the union said. They also include provisions for pension funds, provide additional guaranteed hours for veteran workers and expand health care access to workers’ family members.
EDITOR’S NOTE — Meanwhile, here in southwest Washington and Oregon, Fred Meyer (Kroger) has gone to war against its employees, threatening to hire scab replacements — offering to pay more than what some of their current employees earn — in an attempt to intimidate its workforce into backing off their wage demands. Stay tuned.
► In the NY Times — A French worker died after sex on a business trip. His company is liable. — A court in France has ruled that a man who died from a heart attack after having sex during a business trip had suffered a work-related accident and that his employer was liable. Like that of other countries, French law considers any accident that happens on a business trip to be work-related, even if the activity is not closely related to the employee’s mission.
T.G.I.F.
► It’s Friday the 13th and there’s a full moon tonight, so…
(If you are disturbed by the apocalyptic lyrics, feel free to substitute, “There’s a bathroom on the right.” It’s #5 on the Top Ten Misheard Lyrics!)
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