2025 Union Fighters of the Year goes to IAM 751
The Lynnwood Times is recognizing the International Association of Machinists (IAM) 751 & W24 as the union fighters of 2024 for winning their fight for higher wages and a revamped benefit package against the Boeing Company. The IAM union represents approximately 33,000 Boeing employees. It voted to strike against Boeing on Friday, September 13, after […]
Publisher of Everett Daily Herald says goodbye, named new CEO of Wick Communications
EVERETT—Senior Vice President & Group Publisher at Carpenter Media Group (formerly Black Press), and publisher of the Everett Daily Herald, Josh O’Connor, has been named CEO of Wick Communications—an Arizona-based family-owned media company that operates community news publications and digital advertising agencies across 10 Western states, from Alaska to Minnesota. O’Connor will join Wick in […]
After layoffs, low pay, and unrealistic story quotas, Everett Herald reporters are striking back
EVERETT—Reporters working for The Everett Daily Herald, the oldest still-functioning Snohomish County-based newspaper, have hit their limit after new management slashed half of its newsroom last summer while continuing to pay less than a livable wage and expecting unrealistic story quotas from its staff. Now the Everett NewsGuild, a unionized group of Everett Herald Reporters, […]
