NAFTA betrayed us. Any new deal must prioritize people, not corporations. By LEO W. GERARD (Aug. 22, 2017) — Free trade be damned. People don’t...
With state shutdown looming, budget deal reached in triple OT The following story appears in the Washington State Labor Council’s 2017 Legislative Report published in...
The following story appears in the Washington State Labor Council’s 2017 Legislative Report published in August. SECRETARY TREASURER’S COLUMN By LYNNE DODSON In the midst of...
Trump’s ‘deregulation’ of environmental protections threaten our air quality By JOHN BURBANK (August 9, 2017) — Watching the red sunsets this past week, and sometimes...
200 days of Trump’s ‘Art of Deception’ make it clear: He’s unfit for office By JEFF JOHNSON (Aug. 7, 2017) — Six months into the...
By REP. RICK LARSEN “Let Obamacare fail… we’ll just let Obamacare fail. We’re not going to own it. I’m not going to own it. I can...
By JOHN BURBANK (July 27, 2017) — Paid family and medical leave is now the law in our state. This great breakthrough will provide workers economic...
His plan to expand H-2A to cover year-round work is a game-changer that will displace local workers, drive wages down By ERIC GONZALEZ (July 24,...
By SEN. BOB HASEGAWA OLYMPIA (July 24, 2017) — I am saddened to report that the longest and least productive legislative year in the history of...
By JOHN BURBANK (July 14, 2017) — Twenty-eight years ago, a freshman senator in the state Legislature, Patty Murray, dismissed as just a “mom in tennis...