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Union News Archives

Union, WA News Archives for August 2009

Aug 30, 2009 | TheNewsTribune.com

Waste closes shellfish harvest

UNION Commercial and tribal shellfish harvesters are losing thousands of dollars because they can't harvest clams and oysters at the mouth of the Skokomish River on Hood Canal.

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Fri Aug 28, 2009

The Columbian

Breakfast seminar addresses economic plans

Alan Beaulieu, an internationally known trends consultant, will lead a breakfast event titled, "Action Plans for Pacific Northwest Companies: Business Success in the Emerging Economy," on Oct.

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Tue Aug 18, 2009

The Columbian

Prisoners working on Hood Canal salmon habitat

It was the state budget cut with a silver lining. The state Department of Natural Resources last year cut funding for an inmate firefighting crew based at Belfair's Mission Creek Corrections Center for Women.

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Fri Aug 14, 2009

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Connelly: The big dog of organized labor has a bone to pick with some Democrats

As leader of a progressive, growing union with 2 million members, half employed in health care, Andy Stern has a stern message for Democratic politicians who seek support from the Service Employees International Union.

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Wed Aug 12, 2009

Seattle Times

Boeing Charleston workers to vote in September on whether to retain the Machinists union

One thing you union bashers forget is besides the often shortened labor wantis MORE quote: "What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures," We in ...

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Foreign Affairs

Asia, America, and the Transformation of Geopolitics

Overholt, of the RAND Corporation, has built his analysis of the relations between the U.S. government and Asian governments around the proposition that officials are slow to change their foreign policy thinking and hence are prone to operate with outdated assumptions.

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Mon Aug 10, 2009

Foreign Affairs

Asia, America, and the Transformation of Geopolitics

Overholt, of the RAND Corporation, has built his analysis of the relations between the U.S. government and Asian governments around the proposition that officials are slow to change their foreign policy thinking and hence are prone to operate with outdated assumptions.

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Wed Aug 05, 2009

Peninsula Daily News

Port Angeles loses bid for NOAA facility, area politicians checking possibilities

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration skipped over Port Angeles' bid to be the new home for its research ships, selecting instead an Oregon port for its facility now based at Lake Union.

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Mon Aug 03, 2009

Seattle Times

Labor leaders upset with state Democrats

The Teamsters were an unusual Union as they mostly endorsed Republicans since the time of Jimmy Hoffa Sr., who hated the Kennedy's with a passion.

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Sat Aug 01, 2009

The Seattle Times

Historians record nearly forgotten WA cemeteries

Chuck Haviland walks through a nearly forgotten cemetery in Union, ready to tell the story of some of its most famous residents.

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