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Longview mill workers will get full pay through Aug. 9 after deadly implosion, union says 2026-06-04 [Oregon Live]

Union vows to push for answers after deadly Nippon mill explosion in Longview 2026-05-31 [KATU]

11 Dead as All Bodies Recovered After Washington Chemical Explosion 2026-05-31 [NYTimes]

WA Bans Noncompetes for All Workers: What Employers Need to Know 2026-05-29 [Husch Blackwell]

Boeing workers sue over unpaid time spent putting on safety gear 2026-04-07 [KING5]

Healthcare workers at MultiCare picket for higher wages 2026-04-06 [KIRO]

SEA Airport launches food pantry for unpaid TSA workers 2026-03-17 [KING5]

WA Domestic Workers’ Bill of Rights signed into law, establishing new labor protections 2026-03-11 [KIRO 7]

WA state bill would ban employers from forcibly microchipping workers 2026-03-04 [Reddit]

New WA state bill to support farm worker right to unionize 2026-02-11 [UFW]

Organizing Down the Supply Chain: Logistics Workers Win First Contract 2026-01-29 [Labour Notes]

STOP Terrorizing Somali American Community! Seattle Ride Share Ass. Ed Amed Mumin Speaks Out For more info 2026-01-21 [LVP]

On MLK Day 2026, Minneapolis, Racism, Fascism & The Gen Strike With ILWU 52 Past Pres Gabrial Prawl For more info 2026-01-18 [LVP]

SEIU 503 Members Join Starbucks Workers on the Picket Line in Seattle 2026-01-10 [SEIU]

Yakima Memorial Hospital workers issue 10-day strike warning 2026-01-09 [Apple Valley News]

Mushroom workers take fight to Washington Supreme Court 2026-01-01 [NW Labor Press]

Rotschy fined $184K after excavator bucket crushes worker 2025-12-19 [NW Labor Press]

Why Our Members Put in 650 Hours Canvassing for Katie Wilson for Seattle Mayor 2025-11-21 [Labour Notes]

Starbucks union strike on Red Cup Day hits 2 Seattle stores For more info 2025-11-15 [Seattle Times]

Kaiser Permanente health workers in Oregon, SW Washington approve strike 2025-09-20 [Oregon Live]

Workers picket construction sites across Tri-Cities as strike enters 4th day 2025-08-16 [Tri-City Herald]

Cannabis grow workers get union rights 2025-07-16 [NW Labor Press]

Lawsuit claims Washington farm replaced local employees with foreign workers 2025-06-22 [KIRO]

Workers at Seattle’s Most Prestigious Restaurant Group Have Unionized 2025-06-20 [Eater]

‘IAM Max’: Machinists Rally for Member Detained by ICE 2025-06-13 [Labor Notes]

‘IAM Max’: Machinists Rally for Member Detained by ICE 2025-06-13 [Labor Notes]

Negotiations still on for three unions striking against PeaceHealth 2025-06-10 [Salish Current]

1,200 WWU student employees go on strike 2025-05-29 [Cascadia Daily News]

IAM Union Calls for Immediate Release of Wrongfully Detained Member in Washington State 2025-05-21 [IAM]

SEIU celebrates the release of Cliona Ward, union member and caregiver, following nationwide advocacy 2025-05-08 [SEIU]

Teamsters at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport authorize strike 2025-05-07 [ARGS]

Washington state workers take the fight to the Governor 2025-04-22 [Labor Notes]

'Fight like hell': Hundreds of postal workers statewide hold rallies against potential cuts within U 2025-03-24 [King 5 Seattle]

Outraged by a coworker’s firing, New Seasons workers strike 2025-02-08 [NW Labor Press]

Costco warehouse workers prepare to strike at end of January 2025-01-29 [People's World]

Transit Workers Demand Safety Fixes as They Mourn Shawn Yim 2025-01-14 [Urbanist]

Unionized Bellingham Starbucks employees shut down stores amid nationwide strike 2024-12-27 [My Bellingham Now]

Seattle Starbucks workers to go on strike 2024-12-21 [FOX]

ALPA Welcomes Selection of Rep. Rick Larsen as T&I Ranking Member 2024-12-18 [ALPA]

Boeing busted by employee over plans to surveil workers, quickly reverses course 2024-12-07 [Register]

Hundreds more SPEEA employees at Boeing receive layoff notices 2024-12-07 [KREM]

Starbucks Ice Skating Parties Illegally Left Out Union Workers 2024-12-04 [Bloomberg]

Boeing machinists hold contract vote that could end their 7-week strike 2024-11-05 [The Hill]

CDC sends help as more WA egg farm workers test positive for bird flu 2024-10-26 [Seattle Times]

Boeing workers to vote on new wage deal that could end strike 2024-10-21 [Reuters]

Seattle hotel workers call out ‘Resort Fee Ripoff’ 2024-10-18 [The Stand]

Boeing strike enters second month as workers rally in Seattle 2024-10-16 [NBC]

Boeing strike enters second month as workers rally in Seattle 2024-10-16 [Reuters]

400 hotel workers walk off the job in Seatac, demanding better conditions 2024-10-13 [KIRO]

Boeing Union Members Vote to Strike 2024-09-14 [NYTimes]

This month in labour history

This month in labour history

3-06-1900 The International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union is founded in New York City. [more]

3-06-2016 A federal judge ruled that women's soccer players could not go on strike, despite their collective bargaining agreement (which included a no-strike clause) having expired. The women were in dispute over pay discrimination. [more]

4-06-1912 Massachusetts becomes the first US state to establish a minimum wage [more]

4-06-2012 When National Football League referees failed to agree to a new contract, which included big pension cuts, the NFL locked them out and began hiring scabs to replace them. Bosses came up with a revised offer which was agreed on 26 September. [more]

6-06-1933 10,000 auto workers strike in Lansing, Michigan and paralyze the city for a month following the arrest of 9 of them, including the union president's wife forced to leave 3 children alone at home. [more]

8-06-1917 Disaster at the Spectator mine in Butte, Montana: 168 dead. [more]

9-06-1865 Helen Marot, campaigner for working women, is born. [more]

10-06-1963 Congress adopts a law on equal pay for men and women. [more]

11-06-1913 Police shoot at maritime workers on strike at United Fruit Co. in New Orleans, killing one. [more]

12-06-1904 Defying AFL's Samuel Gompers, 50,000 members of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen walk off their jobs. [more]

16-06-1918 Railroad union leader and socialist Eugene Debs makes his famous speech against capitalism in Canton, OH, which will land him in jail. [more]

17-06-1903 In Philadelphia, "Mother Jones" organizes a demonstration of children who had been mutilated in textile factories to draw public attention to their fate. [more]

19-06-1912 The eight-hour day is adopted for Federal employees [more]

20-06-1947 President Truman vetoes the anti-union Taft-Hartley Act, but his veto is overturned by Congress three days later. [more]

20-06-1893 The American Railway Union is founded with Eugène Debs at its head. [more]

21-06-1877 Hanging in Pennsylvania of 10 miners accused of being "Molly Maguires" activists sentenced to death on the basis of an investigation carried out by a private detectives agency sponsored by a private company. [more]

23-06-1999 Workers at Fieldcrest Cannon textile plants in North Carolina vote for union recognition after a 25 year struggle [more]

27-06-1905 The Industrial Workers of the World, later popularly known as the Wobblies, is founded in Chicago with the aim of uniting all workers in One Big Union [more]

29-06-1894 Over 125,000 workers on two dozen railroads have joined the boycott of Pullman cars [more]

30-06-1918 Socialist anf labor leader Eugene Debs is arrested under the Espionage Act for making an anti-war speech in Canton, Ohio [more]