Union News

1. St. Joe’s faces strike ● Max parking ● Where is our outrage?

   Tuesday, June 25, 2019   LOCAL   ► In the News Tribune — St. Joseph nurses ready to strike: ‘There’s a lot at stake,’ including patient safety (by Matt Driscoll) — Since November, St. Joseph’s registered nurses — 1,100 of them, represented by the Washington State Nurses Association — have been working without a contract. […]

2. Democratic hopefuls agree: Not this NAFTA

   The following is from the Washington Fair Trade Coalition: WASHINGTON, D.C. (June 25, 2019) — Last Thursday, Citizens Trade Campaign released responses it had received from 16 Democratic presidential candidates, including all of the leading contenders — Biden, Sanders, Warren, Buttigieg, Harris, O’Rourke, Booker, Inslee, and others — stating that Congress should not pass NAFTA […]

3. Mass arrests and camps ● NAFTA 2: more of the same ● Where the tax cuts went

   Tuesday, June 18, 2019   OUR NATION OF IMMIGRANTS   ► In today’s Washington Post — Trump vows mass migrant arrests starting next week — In tweets, Trump appeared to reference a plan in preparation for months that aims to round up thousands of migrant parents and children in a blitz operation across major U.S. […]

4. Freedom Foundation keeps spending, failing

   One year after Janus, the right-wing group’s plan to destroy unions in Washington and along the West Coast is a complete failure. In fact, its backfiring on them.   By PETER STARZYNSKI (June 18, 2019) — The Olympia-based Freedom Foundation has been making frivolous claims about the success of the anti-union campaign it has been […]

5. Don’t buy the Social Security fear-mongering

   Congress should expand earned benefits by having wealthy pay their fair share   The following is from Social Security Works: WASHINGTON, D.C. (June 17, 2019) — The New York Times recently ran a headline sure to scare seniors: Unfortunately, the author spoke mainly to sources who buy into a false right-wing narrative that benefit cuts are […]

6. Join #EverybodyOrganize training June 22 in Tacoma

   TACOMA — Tacoma DSA and the Pierce County Central Labor Council are back with another workshop in their #EverybodyOrganize series. This training, a continuation of the “Organizing Under Janus” series that began last year, will be Saturday, June 22 from 9 a.m. to noon at the Tacoma Education Association Conference Room, 3049 S. 36th St., […]