December 2018 - nwLaborPress

The 2018 Presents From Partners event: Thousands of toys, 170 union volunteers, and 650 children.

Local SAG-AFTRA president Robert Blanche is battling complications from a double lung transplant.

Washington’s top union leader, retiring soon, talks candidly about the highs and lows of his 40 years in the labor movement.

It’s bad enough when regular members of the public cross a strike picket line.

Washington State Labor Council coordinates the political efforts of more than 600 affiliated local unions in Washington.

Updates on the union campaigns at Precision Castparts, New Seasons, and Reed College, plus President Trump’s “infrastructure Neverland”

Scrooge of the Year goes to an individual or entity that was particularly hard-hearted to workers.

Union volunteers coordinate with caseworkers in Gresham to compile a list of “needs” and “wants” for foster teens in their care.

For 25 years, the committee’s name has gone back and forth when leadership changed hands between Democrats and Republicans.

The year 2018 will be viewed as pivotal for the American labor movement.