STATE GOVERNMENT ► At StopPensionCuts.com — SB 6378 kicks the can down the road, attacks pensions, harms families — SB 6378 (the Senate Republicans’ budget...
The University of California Berkeley Labor Center will host the 31st Annual Western Regional Summer Institute on Union Women 2012 (SIUW) on July 23-27. Sponsored by...
The following is crossposted from the IAM 751 blog: KENT (Mar. 21) — Machinists Union members — many of them Boeing Co. employees — are picketing...
OLYMPIA (Mar. 22) — Passage of state legislation to finance an enhanced capital budget through bonds should be a special-session priority because “this new infusion of...
By DON ORANGE The Association of Washington Business (AWB), our state’s Chamber of Commerce, is fighting to eliminate industry regulations! Not exactly a “man bites dog”...
LOCAL ► From AP — State’s lower jobless rate may reduce weeks of aid — The state’s unemployment rate dropped to 8.2% last month, an...
By JAMES GREGORY The Great Recession has been accompanied by a great silence. We read statistics about the unemployed but don’t see faces or hear voices of...
STATE GOVERNMENT ► In today’s Seattle Times — Republican lawmakers won’t budge on pension-overhaul plan— As the Legislature slogs through its special session, Republicans show...
UPDATED to include all four Verizon actions Thursday in Western Washington. Verizon has made tens of billions in profits and its top executives walked away with...
STATE GOVERNMENT ► In today’s Columbian — Local teachers rally against proposed health care changes — “Because of our union, because we stand together, I...