UPDATED (Mar. 16) — More than 100 community and labor activists, including members of Washington YELL (Young Emerging Labor Leaders), joined Space Needle workers March 15...
Registration is now open for the Washington State Labor Education and Research Center’s 2nd Annual 2012 Emerging Leaders Conference and Bread & Roses Project on April...
SEATTLE — With the slow recovery from the Great Recession still underway, unemployment in the United States remains at levels not seen for decades. Benefits dwindle;...
The following Action Alert was distributed by UNITE HERE Local 8: SEATAC (Mar. 2) — The Port of Seattle is proposing to bring McDonald’s into SeaTac...
One of the biggest challenges facing many U.S. military personnel when returning to civilian life is finding a good job. The Helmets to Hardhats program addresses...
EVERETT — President Barack Obama visited the Boeing plant here on Friday to thank and praise its proud workforce and to call for greater efforts to...
UPDATE (Feb. 23): Tentative deal at Cooper Tire; USW cancels Saturday’s actions In November, Cooper Tire locked out 1,051 members of United Steelworkers (USW) Local 207L...
MOUNT VERNON — The Skagit Human Rights Festival has invited representatives of organized labor to give a two-hour presentation at the Lincoln Theatre in Mount Vernon...
SEATTLE (Feb. 13) — About 300 port workers, faith leaders, and community members rallied in support of short-haul truck drivers — mostly immigrants from East Africa,...
The following press release has been distributed by the United Steelworkers union: ANACORTES, Wash. — United Steelworkers (USW) union members at Tesoro’s Anacortes facility are rallying...