Last week, Alaska Airlines, the Washington Restaurant Association, and airport small businesses Filo Foods and BF Foods filed a motion asking the state Supreme Court to reconsider its ruling on the … [Read more...]
Big labor exploiting tragedy to attack Darigold
The Washington State Labor Council (WSLC) appears to be scheming to unionize the dairy industry in our state. And, appallingly enough, it is using the tragic death of dairy worker Randy Vasquez as a … [Read more...]
Sawant wages war on tech industry… and competition
Socialist Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant has embarked on her latest campaign to inflict economic damage on the city that elected her in 2013. The symbolic socialist is attempting to change … [Read more...]
$15 minimum wage activists target Yakima
Working Washington, an affiliated organization of the AFL-CIO that advocates for a $15 minimum wage, has set its sights on Yakima. Today, the group organized a rally in Yakima as a means to launch a … [Read more...]
Seattle City Councilmember plans attack on ride-share companies
Seattle City Councilmember Mike O’Brien has hung up his kayak—the one he uses to protest authorized oil rigs in Elliot Bay—for the summer and has taken up his latest completely worthless and … [Read more...]
Federal appeals court to hear $15 minimum wage lawsuit
Earlier this year, a federal judge ruled against small business owners seeking to temporarily halt part of Seattle’s $15 minimum wage law. As Shift reported, the International Franchise Association … [Read more...]
Extreme “green” groups suing again to stop Port commerce
Last month, a King County Superior Court Judge ruled that the Port of Seattle did not need to conduct an environmental review before granting permission for Shell Oil’s Arctic drilling fleet … [Read more...]
WFSE’s interesting demand during secret contract negotiations
The Washington Policy Center’s Jason Mercer just uncovered an interesting bit of information concerning last summer's secret contract negotiations between state employee unions and Jay Inslee's … [Read more...]
Sea-Tac Airport subjected to “reckless wager” that is the $15 min. wage
Last week, the state Supreme Court ruled (5-4) that the unprecedented experiment that is the outrageously high $15 minimum wage applies to Sea-Tac International Airport. The ruling is a reversal of a … [Read more...]
Court rules $15 minimum wage applies to SeaTac airport
The Washington State Supreme Court has ruled that that the city of SeaTac's $15 minimum wage law applies to airport facilities under the jurisdiction of the Port of Seattle. That means all businesses … [Read more...]
Will Inslee learn from California’s green failure?
Just a fraction of the jobs promised by California’s clean jobs initiative—a voter-approved ballot measure that raised taxes on corporations and generate clean-energy jobs— have come to … [Read more...]
Inslee ‘advises’ Ecology to move quickly on carbon rule
Last month, Jay Inslee announced his intention to pursue his extreme “green” agenda by bypassing the state Legislature and imposing a new carbon rule via a cap on carbon emissions. Inslee directed the … [Read more...]