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Health

Janitors and security guards worry they are left behind by vaccination efforts

Front line workers are vying for a vaccine dose to protect themselves against Covid-19 as new cases rise in the Puget Sound area yet again. Some janitors and security guards say they are being left behind by state guidelines, despi
Esmy Jimenez
National

Historic Amazon Union Vote Count Begins This Week For Alabama Warehouse

The results will determine whether Amazon gets its first U.S. warehouse union. It's been dubbed one of the most consequential union elections in recent history.
Alina Selyukh
Politics

Biden Backs Amazon Warehouse Workers' Union Drive

More than 5,800 warehouse workers at the Bessemer, Ala., Amazon facility are voting this month on whether to join the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union.
Jaclyn Diaz
Education

WA's plan to vaccinate teachers, reopen schools gets mixed reviews

‘I'm hearing so much worry from school staff members, very often not just for themselves, but for their families or for their students. They're not convinced that the school is going to be taking all of the required measures that are needed to keep students safe.’
Kim Malcolm

Ann Dornfeld
National

Amazon Warehouse Workers To Decide Whether To Form Company's First U.S. Union

Some 6,000 workers at Amazon's warehouse in Bessemer, Ala., will begin voting on Feb. 8 on a groundbreaking possibility: whether to form the first union in the company's U.S. history.
Alina Selyukh
National

Amazon Warehouse Workers In Alabama Plan Vote On 1st U.S. Union

A labor board hearing is expected to hash out how and when a vote might take place to potentially form the first U.S. union at one of America's largest employers.
Alina Selyukh
Technology

Power Of The Petition: Nonprofit Helps Front-Line Workers Fight For Their Rights

Eight out of every nine American workers don't have a union to represent them in workplace disputes. A nonprofit website is helping push for better wages and working conditions amid the pandemic.
Ashish Valentine
Politics

Seattle police union tossed out of King County labor council

The King County labor council threw out the Seattle police officers union in a contentious vote Wednesday night.
David Hyde
Race & Identity

Drive to kick Seattle Police Officers Guild out of King County Labor Council

Protests around the country against police brutality have highlighted the role police unions play in maintaining the status quo. Now there’s a petition drive to expel the Seattle Police Officers Guild from the King County Labor Council.
David Hyde
Not in your history book: When white strikers abducted black workers on a Seattle streetcar

Horace Cayton was an African-American sociologist born in Seattle in 1903. His father was born a slave; his mother was the daughter of the first black U...
Horace Cayton Jr.

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