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On Juneteenth, 6/19, march for workers’ rights & celebrate Freedom Day w/the Seattle chapter of the A. Philip Randolph Institute, labor, & allies. The event will begin with a rally supporting @unitehere8 hotel workers & end w/a celebration at the ILWU Hall
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Farm workers & allies are seeking an injunction against DHS’s ongoing warrantless immigration arrests."The Trump administration’s racist raids & sweeps violate the rights & liberties America was founded on & threaten the workers America is fed by,” -@UFWupdates Pres.Teresa Romero
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Today's News:
✍️@afahorizonair authorizes strike
✍️Trump policies make 1% richer
✍️Florida organizers show how to survive and turn the tide
✍️@AFSCMELocal3758 pushes back on TRL censorship plan
✍️MN trade unionists targeted in fed.indictments
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Jun 16
"Losing experienced, dedicated journalists because one of the West Coast’s largest newspapers fails to pay a fair wage is a loss for communities across the Northwest."
Seattle Times Union files ULP over bad-faith bargaining
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Jun 16
Newsroom workers with @SeaTimesUnion filed a ULP charge accusing the company of bad-faith bargaining. Management has refused to provide a counterproposal on wages, trying to pressure workers to settle other economic issues first, depriving the bargaining team of needed info.
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Jun 16
Library workers with @AFSCMELocal3758 are calling on new leadership at TRL to address “the longstanding structural and cultural failings” that led to frontline staffing cuts. Workers are demanding greater transparency with increased worker input.
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Jun 16
Today's News:
✍️@speea :“No Nerds, No Birds”
✍️@afahorizonair plan demo at PDX airport
✍️Working parents struggle to balance career & family
✍️Menopause accommodations in the workforce
✍️Penn grad workers win contract through deep organizing
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PSA for all visitors and football fans, there is a UNION BOYCOTT on Windmill Mushrooms across the PNW.
Support Yakima Valley farm workers in their fight for a union!
ALT A UFW union eagle has been added to a hot mess of colorful scribbles all over a map of Washington, featuring doodles of iconic Washington features like mountains, orcas, ferries, cherries, onions, and other produce. The map from WA DOT emphasizes the busyness of the Seattle area, I-5, I-90, US 2, and the U.S./Canada border during the World Cup games.
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Jun 15
The Int'l Labor Conference adopted the first binding international labor standard guaranteeing fundamental rights for hundreds of millions of digital platform workers.“No company is too powerful to be held accountable for the basic rights of working people”@AFLCIO Pres.Liz Shuler
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Jun 15
Nurses with @myWSNA have been vindicated after Kadlec Regional Medical Center settled a ULP alleging retaliation. The NLRB found sufficient evidence to charge the hospital w/interfering with union rights & discriminating against workers over union activity
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Jun 15
Today’s News:
✍️WA state workers push for fair contracts
✍️NLRB upholds Whole Foods union vote
✍️Trump cancels OSHA penalty hikes for employers
✍️Seattle workers reject ICE presence at World Cup
✍️@AFLCIO puts workers at center of AI fight
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Jun 12
The NLRB has found Starbucks illegally interrogated workers at two Seattle stores about participating in strikes, violating federal labor law.The ruling comes as lawmakers advance the Faster Labor Contracts Act to prevent employers like Starbucks from stalling 1st union contracts
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Jun 12
Today's News:
✍️SpaceX IPO could make Musk the 1st trillionaire
✍️USPS proposal puts mail ballots at risk
✍️Union voters mad at Trump, demand more from Dems
✍️Longview workers returning after disaster
✍️@AFLCIO passes resolutions for justice, jobs & rights
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Jun 11
Ahead of the World Cup, @MLKLabor 's Worker Innovation Center launched UNtemp, a union-backed dispatch platform connecting unionized worker co-ops with clients seeking temp. labor. The model combines the flexibility of gig work w/the protections of a union contract.
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Nurse practitioners & physician assistants at Fred Hutch, UW, & Seattle Children’s have filed to unionize w/@UAPD. Citing concerns over quality of patient care, clinicians are organizing amid growing workloads, staffing concerns, & organizational changes.
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