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Using tips to meet Seattle's minimum wage expires in December. Restaurateurs, labor advocates clash over changes

Seattle artists featured along waterfront in tiny pop-up shops

This summer eight local artists are selling their goods in tiny, metal boxes right on Seattle’s downtown waterfront walkway. It’s just a pilot program for now with a scattered schedule, but the vendors could be back next year.

Here's what to expect from the Kroger-Albertsons trial in Oregon

Bellevue slated to get its own edition of Monopoly

Bellevue will be the first city in Washington state to get its own, officially licensed, edition of Monopoly. What's on the board? That's up to locals.

Unified and determined, Boeing workers take to the picket line in Washington state

Tens of thousands of unionized Boeing workers showed up to airplane plants Friday not to work, but to call for better pay and benefits. For the first time since 2008, Boeing workers are on strike.

Amazon is ordering employees to go back to pre-Covid, in-office schedules

When 2025 arrives, Amazon will order its employees to go back to the before times with a five-day per week, in-office schedule, at assigned desks.

Boeing workers having trouble making ends meet amid strike

Unionized Boeing employees say they’re facing serious economic hardship as they wait on a new contract with the aerospace giant.

Boeing to begin furloughs, leadership takes a pay cut, as machinist strike continues

As Boeing's machinists continue to strike, furloughs and pay reductions are in store for the rest of the company.

Striking Boeing workers in Washington state say they’re in it for the long haul

This week Boeing presented what it called its “best and final” offer to the 33,000 machinists who have been on strike for nearly two weeks. The union representing the workers rebuffed the proposal, displeased with its details and how Boeing presented it. Analysts say the union has the upper-hand in negotiations going forward.