Photo: Olympia’s Transit Center by Shayna Clayton By Alice McIntyre Bobby Carleton is an Evergreen student and Olympia resident that has been involved with various community organizing projects around housing justice, food justice, and reproductive rights and is currently focused on advocating for fare-free public transit. Given Intercity Transit’s recent decision to eliminate fares starting on Jan. […]
Care and Contracts: Providence Nurses Battle the Bosses
Photo by Shayna Clayton By Alice McIntyre On Oct. 30, nurses at St. Peter Hospital represented by United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 21 voted to authorize a strike, after five months of contract negotiations and a June 27 protest. The nurses also voted down a previous contract proposal in 544-1 […]
Evergreen Facing Labor & Industries Fines: Facilities Services Program Set to Restructure
Photo: Courtesy of Britt Pierro By Allegra Simpkins The Evergreen State College’s Facilities Services program is currently undergoing significant changes within its organizational structure. Many issues have arisen over the last six months, generating massive concern regarding the program’s ability to serve its employees and the campus community. This past September, the college was […]
Price Check: UFCW Grocery Workers Negotiate for Improved Contracts
Photo: Olympia Safeway manager (right) and assistant (left), by Britt Pierro By Brittanyana Pierro Union representatives from popular chain grocery stores, including Safeway, Albertsons, and Fred Meyer, have recently finished negotiations with their shared company owners Kroger and Cerberus Capital for an improved workers contract. United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) represents grocery store workers all over the nation, including right […]
The Flaming Eggplant: Re-Opening on the Menu for Evergreen’s Beloved Restaurant
Photo: The Flaming Eggplant by Alice McIntyre By Allegra Simpkins A beloved Evergreen establishment, The Flaming Eggplant, will re-open its doors this coming Winter quarter, after a brief closure to implement some changes to the café. These changes are preceded by ten years of operating at a loss that ultimately generated a serious budget crisis and a debt […]
Indigenous Activists Demand Climate Action
Photo: Protesters holding sign on Capitol steps. Courtesy of Paul Chekoten By Alice McIntyre On Oct. 5, Indigenous climate activists of Washington held a rally of over 200 at the State Legislature to demand the declaration of a climate emergency. Demonstrators holding banners and signs critical of Governor Inslee’s environmental policies gathered peacefully to listen to several speakers, primarily from Indigenous […]
Evergreen Not Alone in Class(room) Struggle
Photo: “LWSD One-Day Walkout” by David Schott is licensed under CC BY 2.0 / Desaturated from original and resized By Alice McIntyre Over the last year, public school teachers throughout the country have had a strike wave, with teachers’ unions taking to the picket lines coast to coast. A total of nearly 300,000 teachers took action in a series of statewide strikes in West Virginia, Oklahoma, and Arizona, […]
Amazon on Fire: Political Tension & Climate Change in Brazil
Photo: Public domain photograph of the Amazon Rainforest, created by NASA By Allegra Simpkins Media was set ablaze with commentary last month, as news of wildfires in the Amazon rainforest and other areas of South America sparked controversy among environmentalists around the world. The initial panic has calmed down, but the aftermath has many people confused about global policies surrounding wildfires, […]
Structural Issues: OSHA investigating asbestos & other safety complaints
These investigations follow a Facilities Services employee lodging a number of claims including: lack of training, exposure to numerous hazardous materials, and a “Wild West Culture” regarding accountability from the administration, safety of the employees, and ecological hazards.
Socialist Trucker Joshua Collins says Hell with Heck
By Daniel. Joshua Collins is a truck driver, a democratic socialist, a small business owner and he’s running for congress – at 26 years old. Collins is challenging incumbent representative Dennis Heck in the Democratic primary. Heck, an Evergreen grad, has represented Washington’s 10th congressional district since the state legislature […]