Seattle

Seattle: Workers need health care, not Trumpcare! WW commentary

Seattle March 9 -- In Washington state, there were 15 deaths from COVID-19 (coronavirus) and 79 diagnosed cases of the…

March 13, 2020

Obama’s Alaska trip motivated by Big Oil and war threats

With great fanfare, while making an unprecedented presidential trip to Alaska on Aug. 31, President Barack Obama “renamed” the tallest…

September 3, 2015

March condemns killing of immigrant worker by cops

Pasco, Wash. -- Within days after farmworker Antonio Zambrano-Montes was killed by Pasco police, his murder was seen by over…

February 26, 2015

On the picket line

Nurses stage die-in to demand Ebola readiness in U.S. About 1,000 members of National Nurses United staged a die-in during…

October 4, 2014

Seattle protesters challenge polluters

Two thousand people marched in Seattle after a big downtown rally on Sept. 21.  Protesting coal ports and oil trains,…

September 23, 2014

Boeing gets its contract — but by narrowest margin

Seattle — Workers in the Machinists union, District Local 751, expressed shock and disbelief at their main union hall here…

January 8, 2014

German union takes on Internet giant

Starting last March and again during the December holiday rush, the German service workers’ union Ver.di, which is organizing the…

January 3, 2014

Solidarity from Seattle workers

On Dec. 16, when more than 1,000 workers at Amazon.com in Germany walked off the job to protest getting lower…

January 3, 2014

Demonstrators demand freedom for Nestora Salgado

Demonstrators demanded freedom for Nestora Salgado, an Indigenous Mexican leader, at a protest at the Mexican Consulate in Seattle on…

December 20, 2013

Unions join fast food workers in coast-to-coast actions

By Deirdre Griswold and Kathy Durkin Dec. 5 — The coast-to-coast movement to raise the minimum wage to $15 an…

December 10, 2013