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Labor Unions

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2012

    The Twinkie Defense: Hostess Given More Time in Bankruptcy Fight with Seattle Teamster Fund

    Despite fear-mongering headlines, the Twinkie is not dead yet. Consumed by Americans at a rate of 500 million a year, the creme-filled sponge cake created in 1930 has been given a reprieve by a New York bankruptcy judge, allowing its maker, Hostess Brands Inc., more time to reorganize during its fin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 12, 2011

    Seattle Anarchists Fail to Get Unions to Strike, Will Settle for Bicyclists

    ​Convincing an entire region's union port workers to strike is tough--especially if you're actually not in the union. Perhaps that's why local anarchists are toning down their demands that union members strike to something more manageable: A bike ride!

  • Blogs

    December 1, 2011

    Teachers, Taking a Page from Occupy Protests, Get Militant

    Courtesy of Washington Education Association​This week's boisterous protests in Olympia were largely billed as an outgrowth of the Occupy movement. But the self-declared 99 percenters were not the only ones who showed up. So did 600 teachers, making for the largest local demonstration by their ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 7, 2011

    Local Labor Finally Backs Occupy Seattle Protestors

    For days the silence was deafening. Left-leaning protests sweeping the nation. Wealth distribution, corporate greed, and workers' rights all on the agenda. And as expected, organized labor joining the common cause--everywhere, that is, except Seattle. Until now.

  • Blogs

    September 8, 2011

    Union Longshoremen "Storm" Port of Longview, Cause Mass Destruction, Say Police

    ​A long-simmering standoff between International Longshore and Warehouse Union workers and the Port of Longview turned destructive this morning, police say, when hundreds of striking workers "stormed" the port, smashing windows, cutting brake lines, spilling grain and holding security guards ... More >>

  • News

    June 29, 2011

    Boeing, NLRB, and Obama's Proxy

    The labor fight no one wants to be left out of.

  • Blogs

    May 3, 2011

    Nine Seattle Restaurants Offer Discount to Union Members

    ​5 Point Café owner Dave Meinert believes union members - who've lately been blamed for wrecking state budgets, inhibiting job growth and assaulting Tea Party members - deserve a 15 percent break. Meinert's offering the discount to union members throughout the month of May. Thirty workers ha ... More >>

  • News

    April 13, 2011

    Alan Mulally Makes a Killing

    Why leaving Boeing may have been the Ford CEO's best decision yet.

  • Blogs

    April 11, 2011

    Alan Mulally, Ford CEO and Former Boeing Exec, Is Done with "Sacrifice"

    ​It seems like leaving Seattle was the best thing that ever happened to Alan Mulally. In 2006, it was hard not to feel just a little sorry for the outgoing head of Boeing Commercial Airplanes. Yes, he was finally becoming a CEO--but at Ford Motor, a company immersed in the malaise of the car i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 9, 2011

    Union Busting Heads West: Idaho Strips Teacher Bargaining Rights

    ​The scourge of the evil teacher hordes is finally being crushed thanks to the efforts of rich, white men. In Idaho, where teacher salaries average $45,000 per year and put the greedy educators marginally over the poverty line, the state legislature is finally stepping in and derailing the gra ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 22, 2010

    Grocery-Worker Strike Averted ... At Least For Now

    ​Grocery-store executives at Safeway, Fred Meyer, Albertsons and QFC either caved and gave in to union pressure for fewer employee pay cuts, or called the groups' bluffs altogether. Whatever happened, the picket sign freak-show that had threatened to descend upon grocery stores in King, Snohom ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 20, 2010

    Teamsters Lose Challenge to Increased Hiring of Female Guards at Women's Prisons

    ​A little over a year ago, the state Department of Corrections decided that many of the positions in its women's prisons should be filled by women. It might seem an uncontroversial decision given the history of sexual abuse at women's prisons in this state. Yet, Teamsters Local 117, represen ... More >>

  • News

    May 5, 2010

    The COLA Challenge

    Can Dow Constantine get a tax hike passed without concessions from county workers?

  • Blogs

    April 28, 2010

    Tentative Garbage Deal May Prove You Really Can Strike in a Recession

    Waste Management needed weeks to train replacement workers to drive one of these.​It took less than a week after a two-day strike by garbage workers for a deal to be struck between Teamsters Local 174 and Waste Management. Last night, both sides announced that they had reached a tentative cont ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 22, 2010

    As Garbage Strike Begins, Waste Management's Replacement Workers are MIA

    You may not see a truck like this around for days. ​Waste Management spokesperson Jackie Lang tells SW that it will likely take until "early next week" before most households and businesses will get their trash hauled away. Early next week? Why not today? As Waste Management played hardball ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 31, 2010

    Union-Friendly Homeowners Want to Know: How Do I Honor a Garbage Strike?

    Should homeowners let "scabs" pick up their garbage?​If you're anything of a labor sympathizer, you know there's one inviolable rule to follow: Never cross a picket line. Normally, that works out just fine. If, say, Safeway workers go on strike, you can always go to the QFC. But what do you ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 8, 2009

    McGinn Gets Union Support

    ​As the clear gonna-build-a-tunnel-and-guarantee-a-ton-of-union-jobs (catchy, right?), Average Joe Mallahan has managed to make himself the favored candidate of both business and labor this election season. UNTIL NOW. In an e-mail this morning, Local 21 of the United Food and Commercial Worke ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 3, 2009

    Dear Valued Customer, Whole Foods Is Fighting Back!

    UFCW workers in front of Whole Food Bellevue​Last month, Whole Foods CEO and cofounder John Mackey shocked many people with his op-ed in the Wall Street Journal on healthcare reform. (Quick refresher: "A careful reading of both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution will not reve ... More >>

  • News

    August 12, 2009

    Does the City Have Too Many “Advisors”?

    They’ve grown in number under Nickels, and that’s become a campaign issue—even outside the mayor’s race.

  • Blogs

    May 19, 2009

    Good Day for Nickels

    While Mike McGinn appeared on the Mountain (albeit at a different time than he announced), Jan Drago waited eagerly on the sidelines, and the rest of the mayoral challengers remained fairly quiet, the incumbent finally had a good day. (The SDOT business must seem neverending to that campaign.) Gre ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2009

    Back to the Future: Starbucks vs. the Wobblies

    The National Labor Relations Board laid the smack down on the wrist of Starbucks last week, siding with union organizers in finding that the coffee giant engaged in unfair labor practices at eight Minneapolis-area stores. The union said that Starbucks kicked visiting organizers out of their stores a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 14, 2009

    Times' Books Show Condition 'Serious'

    An economist who has reviewed the financial condition of the Seattle Times - peeking into its books on behalf of the Pacific Northwest Newspaper Guild - has confirmed what Seattle's likely last major daily newspaper has claimed: it has to cut more costs to survive. Eliminating 500 jobs last year did ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 4, 2009

    Bellevue Philharmonic Season Ends With a Whimper

    Things just keep getting tougher for the orchestra across the water. The Seattle Times reports today that the Bellevue Philharmonic canceled its final Masterworks concert, scheduled for next month. Executive Director Jennifer McCausland says they made the decision to cancel, feeling they couldn't re ... More >>

  • News

    December 10, 2008

    Holiday Spirit Takes a Hit at the Philharmonic

    Members of the Bellevue orchestra want to retune their leader.

  • Blogs

    October 27, 2008

    King County is Shutting Down for 10 Days

    Members of the Bellevue orchestra want to retune their leader.

  • News

    July 12, 2006

    Showdown at Virginia Mason

    The medical center wants to turn all nurses into supervisors—nullifying their union status.

  • Blogs

    June 21, 2006

    Librarians Say 'No' To Bush

    The medical center wants to turn all nurses into supervisors—nullifying their union status.

  • News

    April 19, 2006

    New-Age Teamsters

    Also: China's friends in cyberspace, and a long elevator ride for homelessness.

  • News

    April 12, 2006

    Union Doer

    The Labor Council's new head plans to rebuild the county's big political machine.

  • News

    December 7, 2005

    A Union Shop on Every Block

    As baristas seek to organize, the feds cite Starbucks.

  • News

    October 22, 2003

    Reform or Conform

    Thousands of Seattle Teamsters are voting in an ongoing power struggle that pits top-down traditionalists against union reformers.

  • Music

    July 30, 2003

    Big Sister

    The historically progressive YWCA fights a union drive.

  • News

    May 21, 2003

    The Mayor on Line 1

    Nickels calls businesses in support of union janitors. Is that appropriate?

  • News

    October 9, 2002

    A Storm in the Ports

    Are shippers trying to bust the union? If they are, their timing couldn't be better.

  • News

    August 7, 2002

    Who's the Boss?

    A union reformer fires his staff.

  • News

    April 10, 2002

    Teamster vs. Teamster

    Feds side with local union reformer in contested election.

  • News

    October 17, 2001

    New Port tack?

    Challenger Lawrence Molloy mounts a vigorous challenge to incumbent Port Commissioner Jack Block.

  • News

    October 10, 2001

    Campaign cocktail

    A stiff shot for the voting public.

  • News

    September 5, 2001

    Labor pains

    City attorney candidate Jim Cline says he's a labor lawyer, but many unions oppose him.

  • News

    June 20, 2001

    Queer unions

    Pride At Work, a gay labor organization, holds its national convention in Everett.

  • News

    April 18, 2001

    Union war

    Reformer David Reynolds wins a battle in a bitter fight for control of Washington's largest Teamsters local.

  • News

    November 8, 2000

    Stop the presses?

    A strike looms at The Seattle Times and P-I.

  • News

    November 8, 2000

    Labor lessons

    Grad students threaten to strike as the UW refuses to recognize their union.

  • News

    October 25, 2000

    Labor trouble

    Union dissidents at Boeing charge that the local machinists election carried a foul tailwind.

  • News

    November 24, 1999

    Everything WTO

    Union dissidents at Boeing charge that the local machinists election carried a foul tailwind.

  • News

    September 29, 1999

    Will labor fight?

    Unions are scaling back protests against free trade and the WTO.

  • News

    May 5, 1999

    Union reunion

    Port workers flex collective muscle

  • News

    April 28, 1999

    It's not better in the morning

    Teamsters fight to stop The Seattle Times' move to morning publication.

  • News

    February 17, 1999

    Corporate Mardi Gras

    Teamsters fight to stop The Seattle Times' move to morning publication.

  • Arts

    November 11, 1998

    CLO's union blues

    Teamsters fight to stop The Seattle Times' move to morning publication.

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