Thursday, August 14, 2025 STRIKES ► From the Tri-City Herald — Strike idles Eastern WA, Tri-Cities construction sites as...
Tuesday, August 12, 2025 STRIKES ► From IAM District 751: Different picket lines, same fight. #IAM751Machinists stand shoulder to...
Monday, August 11, 2025 STRIKES ► From KSDK — WATCH: Boeing strike enters 2nd week with hundreds of union...
Journalists who cover news from a workers’ perspective will descend on Seattle this week, seriously overloading the area’s progressive media bandwidth. These journalists and communication techies...
By David Macaray On Sept. 8, a group of longshoremen estimated at between 500-1,000, all members of the ILWU (International Longshore and Warehouse Union), stormed the...
STATE GOVERNMENT ► From AP — Workers’ comp overhaul keeps business costs down — A major overhaul of the state’s system is already helping keep...
SEATTLE — Community and labor organizations will gather outside President Barack Obama’s fundraiser at the Paramount Theater this Sunday to let him know where Seattle stands...
Crossposted from AFL-CIO Now’s Tula Connell. Congress will soon consider three so-called free trade agreements (FTAs) between the United States and Korea, Colombia and Panama. Yet...
Today’s news links: LAYOFFS ► In today’s Tri-City Herald — Hundreds learn they will lose jobs at Hanford — Two weeks before the end of...
Today’s news links: E.G.T. UPDATE ► In Saturday’s (Longview) Daily News — No arrests as 200 ILWU members, supporters attempt to turn themselves in —...
By John Burbank It isn’t any surprise that people are pessimistic and negative right now. If we have jobs, we are worried about keeping them. If...
Today’s news links: U.S. POSTAL SERVICE ► In today’s Washington Post — U.S. Postal Service plans to close hundreds of facilities to save money —...
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