The following by Marcus Sweetser, an intern at the Economic Opportunity Institute, is crossposted from the EOI’s Washington Policy Watch blog: The nationwide flu outbreak has...
The following letter by Jeff Johnson, President of the Washington State Labor Council, AFL-CIO, is being sent to the 500-plus union organizations affiliated with the WSLC....
The following was posted by Teamsters Local 117: OLYMPIA (Jan. 11, 2013) — Hundreds of Teamster correctional employees, their families, community allies, and other Teamster members,...
Friday, January 11, 2013 BOEING ► In today’s (Everett) Herald — ‘Little progress’ in Boeing-SPEEA talks; Inslee weighs in — There was “little progress”...
Thursday, January 10, 2013 STATE GOVERNMENT ► In the (Aberdeen) Daily World — Challenges ahead in Olympia — Another projected budget shortfall likely means...
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Jan. 10, 2013) — Momentum continues to build for changing U.S. Senate rules to stop the abuse of the filibuster, an arcane rule that...
Wednesday, January 9, 2013 BOEING ► In today’s (Everett) Herald — After cooling off, Boeing-SPEEA contract talks resume — The company and union began...
UPDATE (Jan. 11, 2012) — SPEEA negotiations with The Boeing Co, continued Thursday with the union reporting little progress on key issues. SPEEA teams reminded Boeing that...
By PRAMILA JAYAPAL (First of a two-part column.) When I first moved to Washington state in 1990, I was one of about 322,000 immigrant (or foreign-born)...