Wednesday, August 12, 2015 LOCAL ► In today’s Spokesman-Review — Spokane City Council toughens penalties for wage law violations — Low-wage workers got a break...
(Aug. 12, 2015) — Labor Neighbor, the Washington State Labor Council’s grassroots member-to-member political action program, plans an aggressive effort to inform union households about the...
UPDATED — The article has been updated to add the Space Needle picket in Seattle on Labor Day at 3:30 p.m. Labor Day is a celebration...
Tuesday, August 11, 2015 CLIMATE CHANGE ► In today’s Seattle Times — Washington state can lead on global warming and clean energy (by Rebecca...
SEATTLE (Aug. 11, 2015) — The Executive Board of the M.L. King County Labor Council voted last week to appoint Nicole Grant of Electrical Workers (IBEW)...
(Aug. 11, 2015) — The labor movement of Washington state is now on record: Corporations are not people. And money is not speech. At the 2015...
Monday, August 10, 2015 SATURDAY’S RALLY ► In the Seattle Times — Black Lives Matter protesters shut down Bernie Sanders; later rally draws 15,000...
By LYNNE DODSON (Aug. 10, 2015) — Like many of us, I’ve been struggling to process the disruption of the Westlake rally on Saturday, Aug. 8....
By DAVID GROVES The Stand (Aug. 10, 2015) — When Sen. Bernie Sanders accepted an invitation to speak at the Social Security/Medicare/Medicaid birthday celebration on Saturday,...