City: Suing Seattle police unions should pick up city’s court costs
By Levi Pulkkinen, SEATTLEPI.COM
The Seattle City Attorney’s Office has agreed to let a police unions’ lawsuit filed against the city drop – so long as the unions pick up the tab.
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Teachers union biggest spender in Washington state lobbying
The Columbian
The Washington Education Association spends more on lobbying the Legislature than any other group and more than twice as much as the next-highest lobbying organization, a health care workers union.
Obama administration tactics violate due process
By Congressman Doc Hastings, The Star
Last summer, news reports broke that the U.S. Department of Labor was effectively holding hostage the crops of blueberry farmers in Oregon until they signed documents agreeing to alleged violations to federal labor laws. Since then, similar cases have popped up on the west side of our own state of Washington.
Lobbying tab $12.9 million — and counting
By Brad Shannon, The News Tribune Interest groups and public agencies reported spending more than
Sanction Was Too Harsh, Union Tells 9th Circuit
By June Williams, Courthouse News Services Longshoremen found in contempt for continuing a labor dispute
Washington Teachers’ Union Top Lobbying Spender In Olympia So Far
By Austin Jenkins, opb.com New disclosure reports are out on money spent for lobbying in
Teachers’ Union in Washington State Challenges Charters in Court
By Andrew Ujifusa, Education Week A legal challenge to Washington state’s new law allowing charter
