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(AP) Picketers are carrying Teamsters strike signs this morning outside the Oak Harbor Freight terminal in Auburn.

Workers walked out Monday night after the union and company were unable to reach an agreement on medical benefits for retired workers. The freight hauler says it will continue to operate.

A union spokesman, Brian Davis, told KIRO-TV that the picketing will extended to businesses where nonunion truck drivers make deliveries.

September 05, 2008 - Leaders of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) today announced that a strike will begin at 3:01 am EST despite extraordinary efforts by the union to reach an agreement with the Boeing Company.

“The absence of job security language was a key reason why members rejected the company’s earlier offer and it is why Boeing is now facing the second major strike in three years,” said International President Tom Buffenbarger. “We’ve learned it’s not enough to have a good-paying job if that job can disappear at any time.”

NO PEACE - NO WORK
End the war now - bring our troops home safely
Join workers from the Puget Sound in protesting the war on May 1, International Worker's Day

Thursday, May 1st
12:00 noon
Jack Perry Memorial Park
1729 Alaska Way South, Seattle
(between Pier 30 and Pacific Maritime Institute)

March along the waterfront to Pier 66

Dear Sisters and Brothers,

I want to invite you to join with labor and our allies in a march
and rally for peace. The International Longshore & Warehouse Union
(ILWU) has called for united labor action on International Workers Day,

What started as a small, online grassroots effort now appears to have the potential for something bigger.
Dan Little, the owner/operator of a livestock hauling company in Carrollton, Mo., estimated Tuesday that at least 1,000 other truckers from across the United States have committed so far to joining him in a strike on April 1.

Although none of the truckers interviewed Tuesday at the Iowa 80 Truck Stop, Walcott, which is just off Interstate 80 west of Davenport, has heard of the intended strike, some said they would shut down, too.

Comrades and dear Friends, I write to you tonight to relay the events that have been curiously unfolding at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, over past thirty-six hours. On Tuesday morning, February 12th, the widely-popular and progressive Gene R. Nichol, President of the College, tendered his resignation, following a decision by the Board of Visitors to not renew his contract (set to expire at the end of the academic year).

Tacoma Sixth Avenue Business District invites you to Labor Day Coffee & Conversation at Origin 23 (Firehouse Coffee), 3518 Sixth Avenue and Union Avenue, Tacoma.

Michael Honey, University of Washington, Tacoma, Haley Professor of Humanities, will speak on his acclaimed new book Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign (New York: WW Norton, 2007), and current race and labor relations.