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 —...
Wednesday, July 16, 2025 STRIKES ► From KING 5 — Trash delays hit dozens of Washington cities amid Teamsters...
The following Call to Action was posted Thursday at AFL-CIO Now. There are 44 members of the U.S. Senate who don’t want consumer and working family...
Despite receiving veto requests from union leaders and rank-and-file members across the state, Gov. Chris Gregoire on Tuesday signed legislation into law that decertifies the ferry...
POLITICAL NEWS: ► From AP — McKenna officially announces campaign to become first GOP governor since 1985 — Attorney General Rob McKenna formally entered Washington’s...
Tuesday, June 7 was the 10-year anniversary of President George W. Bush’s tax cuts that went mostly to very rich individuals and big corporations. As AFL-CIO Now pointed...
POLITICAL NEWS: ► In today’s Seattle Times — State AG McKenna to announce run for Governor — State Attorney General Rob McKenna will announce his...
By Brendan Williams Perhaps not since British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain famously heralded the 1938 Munich Agreement, surrendering Czechoslovakia to Germany as bringing “peace with honor”...
By John Burbank My son Owen and I just drove across half the country. He has a summer job in St. Paul, Minnesota, and we are...
HIGHER EDUCATION NEWS: ► In today’s Seattle Times — Boeing, Microsoft pledge $50 million as tuitions are set to shoot up — Microsoft and Boeing...
Stephanie Velasco, a senior at Wapato High, has been awarded the $5,500 Silme Domingo and Gene Viernes Scholarship in Labor Studies to fund her first year...
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