UPDATE (Dec. 12, 2012) — As management threatens to hire scab replacements for United Natural Foods strikers in Auburn, please sign the petition in support of...
(Dec. 11, 2012) — On Monday, 23 Washington State Republican Senators along with erstwhile Democratic Sens. Rodney Tom and Tim Sheldon formed a majority caucus in...
Wednesday, December 5, 2012 LOCAL ► In today’s Spokesman-Review — Symphony musicians end strike, OK two-year pact — After a weekend of intense bargaining,...
UPDATE (Dec. 11, 2012) — More than 60 people attended Monday night’s candlelight vigil in downtown Seattle on International Human Rights Day to urge Washington’s congressional...
By JOHN BURBANK (Dec. 5, 2012) — Every day we hear about the “fiscal cliff.” But don’t be scared, because in reality it’s a fiction of...
(Dec. 5) — The Washington State Labor Council, AFL-CIO, the state’s largest union organization representing the interests of some 400,000 rank-and-file union members, continues to urge...
Mark your 2013 calendars now for the major events of the Washington State Labor Council, AFL-CIO. The 2013 LEGISLATIVE CONFERENCE will be Thursday, March 7 at...
Tuesday, December 4, 2012 BOEING ► In today’s Seattle Times — Federal mediators to assist Boeing, SPEEA in contract talks — Boeing and its...
OLYMPIA (Dec. 4, 2012) — As the national media focuses on the “fiscal cliff” debt reduction negotiations under way between the White House and the lame-duck...
The following article by Kelly Ross is cross-posted from AFL-CIO Now, with the author’s permission: Just a few days after the election, House Speaker John Boehner...