Tim Wheeler
LATEST ARTICLES BY Tim Wheeler
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2,000 rally for union rights on U.S.-Canada border
April 4, 2011Union members from Canada and the United States rallied at Peace Arch Park on the U.S.-Canada border, April 2, as part of the April 4 week of We Are One events.
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“Odd couple” backs BUILD Act for jobs
March 31, 2011The leaders of the AFL-CIO and the Chamber of Commerce have teamed up to push a law that would create millions of well-paid jobs.
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Labor stalwart Irene Hull dies at 98
March 24, 2011Irene Hull, a beloved "tiny dynamo" fighter for trade union rights, world peace, equality, and socialism died on the first day of spring, March 20 in Seattle.
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1,000 in Olympia: Put people first, close tax loopholes
March 21, 2011The legislature is grappling with budget deficits estimated at $5.1 billion, yet ballot initiatives pushed through by Republican extremists last November block every measure to increase revenues.
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Attacks on public workers put women in bulls’-eye
March 16, 2011Women are calling Republican budget cuts and attacks on public employees a double-barreled "war on women."
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Feeling kinship with Japan’s tsunami victims
March 15, 2011Posted prominently beside the road leading out of town at the mouth of the Dungeness River is a sign, "Tsunami Evacuation Route." In the past we paid little attention to it. But we are now.
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Spokane NAACP leader hails arrest of bomb suspect
March 10, 2011The FBI later announced that it was a highly sophisticated bomb, rigged to be remotely detonated, and designed to inflict maximum casualties.
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Timely reading: “Engels, A Revolutionary Life”
March 4, 2011The book has romance, adventure and a touch of intrigue.
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