On June 2, the Seattle City Council passed a $15-minimum-wage law. In the council chambers, supporters from across the labor…
Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy brought devastation that was not solely from natural causes, as was reported at the time in…
Tacoma, Wash. — Immigrant workers imprisoned in the Northwest Detention Center here launched a hunger strike on March 6. As…
Seattle — Workers in the Machinists union, District Local 751, expressed shock and disbelief at their main union hall here…
Demonstrators demanded freedom for Nestora Salgado, an Indigenous Mexican leader, at a protest at the Mexican Consulate in Seattle on…
Seattle -- A two-to-one “no” vote by the 31,000 members of Machinists District 751 (IAM) rejected Boeing's attempt to ram…
Seattle -- The migrant farmworker organization Familias Unidas por la Justicia (Families United for Justice) has been fighting for the…
Nearly 200 strawberry pickers went on strike for six days, beginning on July 11, against Sakuma Brothers Farms near Burlington,…
Demonstrators and supporters from the Native environmental and justice organization, Idle No More, marched 3.8 miles and rallied at SSA…
Seattle — On Feb. 28, anti-corporate activists Katherine “Kteeo” Olejnik and Matthew Duran were released from the Sea-Tac Federal Detention Center…