Monday, September 15, 2025 STRIKES ► From PBS News — Boeing workers reject latest contract offer, extending strike at...
Friday, September 5, 2025 STRIKES ► From KOIN — Union members reject district’s ‘final offer’ as Evergreen Public Schools...
Thursday, September 4, 2025 STRIKES ► From the union-busting Columbian — La Center teachers strike demanding ‘a fair contract...
By SARAH LASLETT (May 21, 2015) — I will be leaving the Washington State Labor Education and Research Center at South Seattle College this summer. It...
Wednesday, May 20, 2015 STATE GOVERNMENT ► From KIRO TV — State employees to walk off jobs to protest lack of raises — A...
The following is from the Musicians’ Association of Seattle, AFM Local 76-493: SEATTLE (May 20, 2015) — The Seattle City Council voted 9-0 on Monday to...
By JOHN BURBANK (May 20, 2015) — When you think about retirement, you can imagine a life in which you are freed from decades of work,...
Citizens protest outside Secretary of State’s event at Boeing RENTON (May 19, 2015) — At the Boeing factory here on Tuesday, U.S. Secretary of State...
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 FAST TRACK ► In today’s Oregonian — AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka rips Oregon Democrats for Fast Track/TPP support — During...
By JEFF JOHNSON (May 19, 2015) — I wish that the Honorable Secretary of State John Kerry was visiting Washington at a site other than the...
UPDATE — See news coverage of the WFSE May 20 “unity breaks.” The following is from the Washington Federation of State Employees, AFSCME Council 28: In...
(May 19, 2015) — Jeff Johnson, President of the Washington State Labor Council, AFL-CIO, sent the following letter to state lawmakers on Monday in advance of...
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