Ports Close For Weekend In Response To Worker Slowdown All ports on the West Coast will be closed for business this weekend – a response to ongoing worker slowdown, said a spokesman for the Pacific Maritime... KUOW Staff
Will The State Follow Seattle's Footsteps And Raise The Minimum Wage? Ross Reynolds talks with the president of Washington State Labor Council, Jeff Johnson, about his legislative priorities. We also hear from KUOW's... Ross Reynolds Hannah Burn
New Households In King County Are Rich Or Poor – But Not Middle Class Earlier this month at an economic conference, King County Executive Dow Constantine made a startling point: Less than 5 percent of the households added... Carolyn Adolph
University Of Washington Janitors Protest Increased Workloads, Low Wages Janitors and custodians at the University of Washington plan to rally in the middle of campus Tuesday. Due to budget cuts, there’s now a smaller... Liz Jones
The Role Of Public Sector Unions In The U.S. In the post-WWII period, 40 percent of Americans were private sector union members. That number is now below 7 percent. The reasons behind this drastic... John O'Brien
Public Sector Unions: Boost Or Bane? Ross Reynolds moderates a debate on the role of public sector unions in a Seattle Town Hall debate January 13. Guests include Daniel DiSalvo, a critic... Ross Reynolds
Labor Dispute? Federal Mediators Are Here To Help Ross Reynolds talks with John Nichols, Washington correspondent for The Nation, about the role of federal mediators in settling labor disputes. Ross Reynolds Andy Hurst
Costco And United Farm Workers Union To Label Worker-Friendly Food Marcie Sillman talks with Erik Nicholson, vice president of the United Farm Workers Union, about the Equitable Food Initiative, a new labeling system to... Marcie Sillman Matthew Streib
Workplace Deaths Increased In 2014 In Washington State Sixty-four people died on the job in Washington state in 2014, more than in any of the past three years, according to preliminary figures from the... John Ryan
For Puget Sound Businesses, 2014 Meant 'Prosperity At A Price' It was a year of soaring profits for Boeing and Microsoft, rapid expansion for Amazon and anguish for Boeing machinists. KUOW's economy reporter Carolyn... Bill Radke Carolyn Adolph