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...
In November, Cooper Tire locked out 1,051 members of United Steelworkers (USW) Local 207L at its profitable Findlay, Ohio, plant despite the union’s good-faith offer to...
SEATTLE — The Hilton Seattle is entertaining prospective buyers right now, and union workers are in danger of being replaced with poverty-wage jobs. So UNITE HERE...
LOCAL ► In today’s (Everett) Herald — Despite Boeing hiring, state economy still stalled — The state economy continues to be weighed down by a...
Here is today’s edition of the weekly Legislative Update the Washington State Labor Council, AFL-CIO (PDF version): Start 2012 session with positive, proactive Infrastructure Jobs Bond...
EGT vs. ILWU ► In the (Longview) Daily News — Protest planned for first ship to dock at EGT grain terminal — The U.S. Coast...
MT. VERNON (Jan. 9) — A new and energetic pro-worker, pro-union group in Northwest Washington — called the Labor-Democrat Work Group — is exploring ways to...
STATE GOVERNMENT ► In today’s Olympian — Rep. Reykdal: New income tax proposal on the way— State Rep. Chris Reykdal and Sen. David Frockt are...
By JOHN BURBANK If there’s a single lesson to be drawn from the events of 2011, it’s this: democracy is based on acting and doing, not...
The following press release was distributed by Teamsters Local 117: TUKWILA — In a preliminary ruling, the Public Employment Relations Commission has found that the University...
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