Worker Conquests News Today

The Stranger's labor news roundup.

The Stranger's labor news roundup.

Articles by Conor Kelley, The Stranger, Seattle's Only Newspaper

Now playing on This Week in Worker Conquests: New technology scans our faces and attempts to read our minds. Greedy railroad barons get us in a whole heap of trouble. A nation hangs in the balance as the results of an election trickle in. But first: Good news afoot in a footy org. This week U.S. Soccer announced that the league will pay the players on its women’s team as much as it pays the...

Today happens to be Friday the 13th, but I’m here to tell you right now: We don’t care. We don’t care! We’ve been through two-and-a-half years of a deadly pandemic, seen the rise and fall of funny money and JPEG monkeys, and we are simply too tough to get spooked by Friday the 13th anymore. Grow up, Friday the 13th! Alright, let’s get into it. Another bad week for Starbucks: The National Labor Relations Board...

The Washington State Legislature is closing up shop today: Democrats in the Legislature expect to wrap up work between 7 and 8 pm, which will mark the fifth year in a row that lawmakers turned in their work on time — the last time that happened was 1899. Right now the House is at east until 7 pm. The Senate's now heading to the floor to vote on bills that would give businesses a B&O...