UPDATE (June 24, 2016) — This is it. Thank you to all of you who gathered signatures for Initiative 1433, the important effort to raise the...
WSLC’s 2016 Legislative Report, labor voting record now available OLYMPIA (May 20, 2016) — As rank-and-file delegates representing unions across the state gather this weekend...
By JEFF JOHNSON As Molly Ivins used to say, “The first rule of holes: When you’re in one, stop digging.” My message to Senate Ways and...
UPDATE (May 11, 2016) — The Machinists Union picket lines that went up one minute after midnight on Wednesday morning outside Triumph Composite Systems are going...
The following is from the Pierce County Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO: TACOMA — Have you or your local union been collecting peanut butter for Secretary Patty...
“Like” the MayWorks Facebook page for the latest! From striking tobacco workers singing “We Shall Overcome,” to the IWW organizing through song over the Salvation Army’s...
Jeff Johnson, President of the Washington State Labor Council, AFL-CIO, speaks at Friday’s protest of students, faculty and community leaders at Green River College calling for...
Calling all area unions for voter registration drive, Labor Neighbor walk The following is from Labor Neighbor, the Washington State Labor Council’s grassroots member-to-member political...
Each year on Worker Memorial Day, April 28, working people throughout the world remember those who were hurt or killed on the job, and renew our...
(April 18, 2016) — Jeff Johnson, President of the Washington State Labor Council, AFL-CIO, released the following statement today: “The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments...