Monday, July 21, 2025 LOCAL ► From KUOW — Here’s where NPR programming is broadcast in WA — and...
Friday, July 18, 2025 STRIKES ► KOMO — Garbage strike continues as Kent, Bellevue offer new trash drop-off sites...
Thursday, July 17, 2025 STRIKES ► From My Northwest — Local residents fed up with Republic Services strikes —...
STATE GOVERNMENT ► In today’s Olympian — Capital gains tax proposed to fix bleeding budget— Rep. Laurie Jinkins (D-Tacoma) says a 5% tax on realized...
At its 2011 Convention, Washington State Labor Council delegates approved a resolution calling for the WSLC to create a month-long celebration of workers’ culture in May...
SEATTLE — Several hundred residents of Seattle’s International District attended a packed-house forum on Jan. 13 about the imminent closure of two local Social Security Administration...
MLK DAY ► In today’s Spokesman-Review — Turnout nearly double for Spokane’s MLK march — The event, which started at the Spokane Convention Center and...
Here is today’s edition of the weekly Legislative Update the Washington State Labor Council, AFL-CIO (PDF version): Priority bills would create jobs, retain good jobs, ensure...
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Applications are now open for the 2012 Union Plus Scholarship Program, which provides $150,000 in scholarships to union members, their spouses and dependents. This...
M.L.K. DAY ► In today’s NY Times — How Fares The Dream? (Paul Krugman column) — If Martin Luther King could see America now, I...
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...
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