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The Department of Labor and Industries was created by an act of the state legislature in 1921, overseeing industrial insurance, worker safety, and industrial relations. [2] [3] The new agency superseded the Bureau of Labor, created in 1901 to inspect workplaces, and minor state boards and commissions monitoring worker health, safety, and insurance claims.
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The Washington State Labor Council is the Washington branch of the AFL–CIO. It represents all AFL–CIO affiliates in state politics, and its major interest group, particularly for Democratic politicians. The organization was split when several national unions broke from the AFL–CIO and formed the Change to Win Coalition, taking their state ...
Mike Kreidler, Commissioner. Website. www.insurance.wa.gov. The Washington State Office of the Insurance Commissioner was created in 1889–90, and became a separate agency in 1907 with an elected commissioner. [1] The current commissioner is Mike Kreidler, a Democrat first elected in 2000 and reelected five times.
Founded in 1974, Lancs Industries is headquartered, and has a 10,000-square-foot (930 m 2) facility in Kirkland, WA, with a field office in Warwick, RI, and provides products for both public and private entities such as, Naval shipyards, nuclear power plants, and Department of Energy lab facilities.
Economy of Washington (state) The northwestern U.S. state of Washington 's economy grew 3.7% in 2016, nearly two and a half times the national rate. Average income per head in 2009 was $41,751, 12th among states of the U.S. The United States' largest concentration of STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) workers reside in Washington ...
The Labor Archives were founded by Conor Casey in 2010 funded by a $250,000 fundraising campaign run by the Washington State Labor Council and a $150,000 matching grant from the International Longshore and Warehouse Union. [3] [2] The Labor Archives won the John Sessions Memorial Award in 2013 and 2021. [3]
Working class. The working class is a subset of employees who are compensated with wage or salary -based contracts, whose exact membership varies from definition to definition. [1][2] Members of the working class rely primarily upon earnings from wage labour. Most common definitions of "working class" in use in the United States limit its ...