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Washington farmworkers will become eligible for overtime after a 40-hour work week in January. Producers are looking to relax that standard during peak harvest times.
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King County Councilmember Girmay Zahilay is calling for a minimum wage of $18.99 in unincorporated King County.
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U.S. farms have faced worker shortages for years. Now compounding the problem: The children of farmworkers are leaving the fields, forcing farm owners to look to other countries for labor.
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Jose Martinez has picked America's food for decades. With all that experience on different farms, he saw workers lacking labor protections. Now he works to give farmworkers more rights.
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UPS has reached a contract agreement with its 340,000-person strong union Tuesday, averting a strike that had the potential to disrupt logistics nationwide for businesses and households alike.
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Washington state is among a handful of states with new laws granting farmworkers the right to earn time-and-a-half for overtime work. But for many workers, things haven't turned out as expected.
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REI, the shopping mecca for outdoor enthusiasts, has balked at recognizing its newly unionized workers. They accuse the retailer of breaking labor laws, which the company denies.
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Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders on Tuesday opened a Senate investigation into Amazon’s warehouse safety practices. The move follows a series of probes Sanders has initiated against Starbucks and Moderna in his role as chairman of a committee that oversees health and labor issues.
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Some students at the University of Washington are planning to deliver a letter to the administration later this month to ask that it not renew its contract with Starbucks.
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Community colleges are in trouble. That has implications for the national economy, which relies on community colleges to fill many of the jobs that have shortages.