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In Wisconsin and Washington, tabletop workers are unionizing at various companies: Mox Boarding House, Card Kingdom, and Noble Knight Games. It’s aligned with union trends in the United States, and in the game industry as a whole.

PACs ramp up spending on Seattle mayor’s race One pays $100K on dried cherries to include in mailers By Daniel Beekman, The Seattle Times Published: July 16, 2021, 4:49pm Share: SEATTLE — Here’s a sign that the Seattle mayoral race has juice: A political action committee involved in the contest just spent more than $110,000 on fruit. Essential Workers for Lorena, an independent PAC bankrolled by unions that represent hotel and supermarket workers, recently bought 20,345 pou...

485 3 minutes read On Feb. 3, the same day that Seattle’s $4/hour “hazard pay” law for grocery store workers went into effect, the Northwest Grocery Association and the Washington Food Industry Association filed a lawsuit against the city of Seattle to stop this new law.  The lawsuit filed in Seattle’s U.S. District Court alleges that the so-called “hazard pay” law interferes with the collective-bargaining process between grocery stores and unions. The other allegation is that t...

Employers can require the coronavirus vaccine, many holding off for now By Heidi Groover, The Seattle Times Published: February 5, 2021, 10:30am Share: At Google and Amazon, it’s “strongly encouraged.” At Trader Joe’s, it will earn employees extra pay. At the downtown Seattle law firm Davis Wright Tremaine, it will be a condition of returning to the office. Aegis senior living facilities will require it once vaccines are widely available. As the coronavirus vaccine gradu...

By Zack Budryk - 02/04/21 03:44 PM EST   Two trade groups representing grocery stores in the Pacific Northwest sued the city of Seattle on Wednesday for requiring stores to increase workers’ hazard pay by $4 an hour amid the coronavirus pandemic. Under the city ordinance, all large grocery stores with locations bigger than 10,000 square feet and more than 500 employees worldwide must provide the pay increase to all workers through the end of the city’s civil emergency. “Unfortunate...