UPDATE: This action has expired. Gov. Gregoire signed the bill decertifying the union. The Legislature passed ESSB 5742, a revenue bill for the Washington State Ferries...
The BlueGreen Alliance and Apollo Alliance announced a merger Thursday to strengthen and unify the movement to build a clean energy, good jobs economy to fuel...
THE WAR ON UNIONS: ► In today’s NY Times — Judge voids law curbing Wisconsin unions — Ruling that Republicans in the State Senate had...
LEGISLATIVE NEWS: ► In today’s Olympian — Senate OKs $32.2 billion state budget — The Senate voted 34-13 to give final approval to a $32.2...
By John Burbank You’d be hard-pressed to find a better example of “kick-’em when they’re down” politics this year than the workers’ compensation legislation rushed through...
In a 40-57 vote on Wednesday, the U.S. Senate rejected the budget passed by House Republicans. Washington Democratic Sens. Maria Cantwell and Patty Murray both voted...
With one stroke of his pen at 12:30 pm on Wednesday, May 25, Republican Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin stripped hundreds of thousands of his state’s...
LEGISLATIVE NEWS: ► In today’s Seattle Times — Lawmakers strike budget deal; teacher pay cut — State lawmakers appear to have cleared the roadblocks to...
By Kimberly Freeman Brown Right-wing pundits and politicians have been in rare form over the past few weeks, with the National Labor Relations Board’s complaint against...
As a recent Letter to the Editor in the News Tribune pointed out, assistance is available to laid-off workers and businesses impacted by foreign trade, and...