'Solidarity is Brewing' - Starbucks Sip-ins Mark Tide of UnionizationOn Monday, September 5, elected officials and others spilled into an Everett Starbucks to support workers who voted to form a union. Read Article |
Delta Announces It Will Pay Flight Attendants During Boarding Amid Union PushIn a major win for unionizing flight attendants, Delta Air Lines announced on Monday that it will begin paying its flight attendants during boarding. Read Article |
Amazon Workers at New York Warehouse Vote to Form Company’s First U.S. UnionAmazon warehouse workers at a facility in New York City have voted to form the first US union in the tech giant’s 27-year history, marking a stunning victory for a bootstrapped effort led by a fired employee. Read Article |
Announcing the Mike Sells Labor Champion Award!
The Snohomish and Island County Labor Council is proud to announce the creation of the Mike Sells Labor Champion Award, which will be presented for the first time on Oct. 25, 2022, and annually to a deserving recipient who has carried on in Rep. Sells legacy as a champion of organized labor and public service here in Western Washington.
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The Snohomish & Island County Labor Council and Its Purpose
The Snohomish and Island County Labor Council is a federation of 64 unions in Snohomish and Island counties. Those unions represent 42,000 working families for the purpose of bargaining wages/salaries and working conditions with their employers.
The Labor Council and its member unions are dedicated to helping workers organize their workplaces so that they are ensured economic justice and dignity.
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Providence Nurses: Patients, Staff Suffered as Leaders ‘Stood in Silence’A “leaflet action” was organized, as nurses continued to speak out about staffing shortages and safety concerns in Everett. Read Article |
Congrats! You Formed a Union. Now Comes the Hard Part.The boring, crucial work that happens now that Starbucks and Amazon have unionized. Read Article |
Starbucks’s Multimillion-Dollar Anti-Union Effort May Have BackfiredThe last two months have seen a veritable whirlwind of labor activism at Starbucks. Workers at more than 100 Starbucks stores in 26 states have now filed for union elections. Read Article |
It Pays to be UNION. Join Us!
• Union workers' median weekly earnings are 16% higher than their nonunion counterparts
• Median wages for women Union workers are 20% higer than nonunion women
• Median wages for African American Union workers are 27% higher than nonunion African American workers
• Median wages for Latino Union workers are 39% higher than nonunion Latino workers
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