Tim Wheeler

Tim Wheeler has written over 10,000 news reports, exposés, op-eds, and commentaries in his half-century as a journalist for the Worker, Daily World, and People’s World. Tim also served as editor of the People’s Weekly World newspaper. His book News for the 99% is a selection of his writings over the last 50 years representing a history of the nation and the world from a working-class point of view. After residing in Baltimore for many years, Tim now lives in Sequim, Wash.

LATEST ARTICLES BY Tim Wheeler

Labor

Thousands across the nation march in “Fight For 15 NOW!” picketlines
November 12, 2015 By Tim Wheeler
"It is important to raise the wages for all of us: on payday workers may be able to pay the rent but can't pay for food."
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U.S.

Washington State electorate gives green light on important issues
November 10, 2015 By Tim Wheeler
Tacoma voters approved a ballot measure to raise the minimum wage to $12 an hour by 2018, a partial victory.
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Labor

Liz Yates, 90, helped organize Seattle teachers
November 4, 2015 By Tim Wheeler
Elizabeth Yates who helped unionize her fellow Seattle school teachers and remained a lifelong progressive activist.
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Labor

Seattle teachers suspend strike, vote Sept. 20 on contract
September 18, 2015 By Tim Wheeler
The 5,000 teachers in Seattle's public schools suspended their six-day strike amid strong displays of solidarity on their picketlines.
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Environment

Navy jets, electronic warfare stir outrage
September 18, 2015 By Tim Wheeler
The noise and electronic radiation pose a dire threat to animals and plants in the wilderness regions of the Olympic Peninsula.
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Labor

Seattle teacher’s strike solid on day four
September 11, 2015 By Tim Wheeler
Five thousand Seattle school teachers spent the day honoring those who died in the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attack.
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U.S.

Bernie Sanders rallies in Northwest draw record crowds
August 10, 2015 By Tim Wheeler
Sanders appealed for unity, and declared that having good jobs, racial, and gender equality, health care, and higher education for all "is not utopian dreaming."
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U.S.

Brave activists who broke into FBI office in ’71 remembered
July 24, 2015 By Tim Wheeler
I was the Washington correspondent of the Daily World and received a packet in the mail of top secret FBI documents exposing the surveillance of tens of thousands of law-abiding people.
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