Monday, June 30, 2025 STRIKES ► From the Tacoma News Tribune — Multicare Emergency workers to walk off job...
Thursday, June 26, 2025 LOCAL ► From My Northwest — Seattle federal building employees picket ICE arrests — McConnell...
Wednesday, June 25, 2025 STRIKES ► From People’s World — First Safeway strike since ’96 showcases heightened grocery worker...
ELECTION ► In Saturday’s (Everett) Herald — 7 candidates try to stand out in 1st District — A wide-open battle for the 1st Congressional District...
By JEFF JOHNSON Today, the U.S. Supreme Court begins three days of hearings on the Affordable Care Act. Not since the 1965 Voting Rights Act has...
STATE GOVERNMENT ► At StopPensionCuts.com — SB 6378 kicks the can down the road, attacks pensions, harms families — SB 6378 (the Senate Republicans’ budget...
The University of California Berkeley Labor Center will host the 31st Annual Western Regional Summer Institute on Union Women 2012 (SIUW) on July 23-27. Sponsored by...
The following is crossposted from the IAM 751 blog: KENT (Mar. 21) — Machinists Union members — many of them Boeing Co. employees — are picketing...
OLYMPIA (Mar. 22) — Passage of state legislation to finance an enhanced capital budget through bonds should be a special-session priority because “this new infusion of...
By DON ORANGE The Association of Washington Business (AWB), our state’s Chamber of Commerce, is fighting to eliminate industry regulations! Not exactly a “man bites dog”...
LOCAL ► From AP — State’s lower jobless rate may reduce weeks of aid — The state’s unemployment rate dropped to 8.2% last month, an...
By JAMES GREGORY The Great Recession has been accompanied by a great silence. We read statistics about the unemployed but don’t see faces or hear voices of...
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