In early May, U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk will host the 12th round of negotiations of the TransPacific Free Trade Agreement (known as the TPP) in...
ALEC UPDATE ► In the NY Times — Conservative nonprofit ALEC acts as stealth business lobbyist — Most recent attention has focused on ALEC’s role...
Aminul Islam, a Bangladeshi labor rights activist and former apparel worker, was tortured and murdered in early April in Dhaka. His body, which bore signs of...
‘MEDISCARE HOOEY’ ► In today’s Columbian — Herrera Beutler Medicare flier’s claims challenged — The flier, which cost the government $37,000 to print and distribute,...
WASHINGTON, D.C. (April 19) — Corporate executive officers of S&P 500 Index companies received an average of $12.9 million in pay in 2011 — a 14%...
BOEING ► In today’s (Everett) Herald — Boeing, SPEEA get jump on talks — Representatives of the Boeing Co. and negotiators for the the Society...
SEATTLE — The next six months will bring millions of tourists to Seattle, but tourism workers have nothing to celebrate. This Saturday, April 21, the city...
BELLEVUE — On Monday. April 16, about 75 union members and labor activists protested T-Mobile’s decision to close down seven call centers around the United States,...
By BRENDAN WILLIAMS Once again, a state legislative session that slashed another 1,266 state jobs along with many other programs — in defiance of any rational...