Day: January 26, 2018

Washington State posts big gains in union membership

Jan 26, 2018

From The Stand: An estimated 584,000 Washington state residents belonged to labor unions in 2017, a new report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics shows, an increase of 45,000 from the previous year and 84,000 since 2015....

Here’s how Trump’s Labor Department quietly gave bosses even more power over their workers

Jan 26, 2018

Excerpts from In These Times: On January 5, the Department of Labor (DOL) quietly took a step to bolster the legal power of bosses over their workers by reissuing 17 previously withdrawn opinion letters. Developed at the end of...