By JOHN BURBANK (Jan. 30, 2014) — Last week, 32 House Democrats joined Jesslyn Farrell (D-Seattle) in proposing to increase our state’s minimum wage to $10...
By GORDON LAFER In 2010, I sat across the table from Assistant U.S. Trade Representative Barbara Weisel, who was responsible for negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP),...
By JOHN BURBANK (Jan. 17, 2014) — The slow recovery from the Great Recession has heightened stark inequality in the Puget Sound area. Corporate profits and...
By JOHN BURBANK (Jan. 3, 2014) — Happy New Year! Often we take the first day of the year to look back to what happened, or...
By JOHN BURBANK (Dec. 19, 2013) — One week ago the sun set at its earliest: 4:16 p.m. Every day forward means that the sun sets...
By ELIZABETH SHULER (Dec. 11, 2013) — Only 12% of the workforce has paid family leave. While the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) — the...
By JEFF JOHNSON (Dec. 10, 2013) — Labor wants our engineers and machinists to design and build the 777x and the new composite wing here at...
By JOHN BURBANK (Dec. 6, 2013) — Last month voters approved a $15-an-hour minimum wage for workers in SeaTac. In California, Ron Utz, a conservative Silicon...
By JOHN BURBANK (Nov. 22, 2013) — So how about that $8.7 billion tax giveaway Boeing just received to build the 777X? We have been here...
By FRANK FOTI Economists say things are getting better and people are going back to work. But there is another side to the story. Many are going...
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