Unions

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) filed a complaint against REI Co-op, after finding the retailer illegally withheld benefits packages from workers at unionized stores.

Unionized employees are asking members to mark "withhold" on their ballots after a Seattle activist and a top Greenpeace leader were excluded.

Unionized REI workers are running an insurgent campaign to elect a pro-labor candidate to the outdoor retailer’s board of directors. It’s a longshot bid for sway over the co-op’s future.

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At $16.66 per hour, Washington will again have the highest state level minimum wage in the country. But some advocates say that’s still not enough.

Unions representing auto workers, actors, hotel housekeepers and airplane assembly workers all called strikes as organized labor made itself heard over the past year.

Washington Public Employees Association members see a 5% raise over two years as too little. The state’s largest federation of public sector unions ratified their agreements.

Boeing's proposed contract, released on Monday, includes bigger raises and bonuses than the offer that union members overwhelmingly rejected this month.

Union negotiators called a proposed pay hike too small and “disrespectful.” The state is supposed to reach deals with all its unions by Oct. 1.

The company said Saturday that it locked out about 125 firefighters and a facility about 170 miles away in central Washington.