LEGISLATIVE NEWS: ► In Sunday’s Spokesman-Review — Workers’ comp becoming a yellow brick road-block (Jim Camden column) — The budget is not really holding things...
By Sen. Maralyn Chase Most state government programs are under regular review – if they don’t work, they don’t last. The same cannot be said about...
FOOD DRIVE TOMORROW! (SATURDAY) ► At AFL-CIO Now — Help Letter Carriers ‘Stamp Out Hunger’ May 14 — You can help “Stamp Out Hunger” by...
By John Burbank The era of 9/11 may have been brought to a close last week with the killing of Osama bin Laden. President Obama spoke...
In the 2009 legislative session, just months after organized labor in Washington state had played a key role in helping to elect Gov. Chris Gregoire and...
The Boeing Co. and its allies in Congress have mounted an aggressive political and media campaign to try to circumvent judicial proceedings initiated by the National...
LEGISLATIVE NEWS: ► In today’s Olympian — Issue of taking on less debt keeps lawmakers in town — The question of whether to tighten restrictions...
By Brendan Williams In my six years in the State House, I never met a small business owner who wanted our state to fail. Yet associations that...
United for Washington Families, a diverse group of more than 50 labor, human services and advocacy organizations, is urging state lawmakers against proposals to cut the...