A roundup of key workplace stories, legal updates, and events shaping workers’ rights. Women account for all job losses in July According to an analysis from the National Women's Law Center, the overall economy lost 23,000 jobs in July and accounted for all of those losses. Meanwhile, men gained 9,000 jobs. Read more here. Seattle Public Schools teachers vote to authorize strike The Seattle Education Association voted 91.2% in favor of authorizing a strike if a tentative agre

Stockwell Law Firm clients who were sued following a 2023 protest at an Eritrean festival in Tacoma have had the federal lawsuit against them dismissed, ending nearly two years of litigation. The News Tribune covered the dismissal in an August 20 story examining the dispute, the protest and the outcome for the activists Stockwell Law Firm represented. The case arose from a protest at the 49th Annual Eritrean Festival in downtown Tacoma on August 5, 2023. Our clients are membe

Stockwell Law Firm is proud to represent a blind machinist in a disability discrimination lawsuit against Boeing that is drawing local and national media attention. The case was first covered by the Everett Herald and has since been picked up nationally by Newsweek. At the center of the lawsuit is a fundamental question about disability rights at work: whether an employer gave a qualified worker a meaningful opportunity to do his job with reasonable accommodations. An experie