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	<title>The Capitol Record &#187; Labor relations</title>
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		<title>Update on the &#8216;worker privacy&#8217; bill e-mail exchange</title>
		<link>http://www.tvw.org/capitolrecord/index.php/2009/03/update-on-the-worker-privacy-bill-e-mail-exchange/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 23:55:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Niki Reading</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Washington State Labor Council posted this on their web site about the investigation into an e-mail this morning that lead to the death of the &#8216;worker privacy&#8217; bill: &#8220;The following statement regarding today&#8217;s developments surrounding the Worker Privacy Act is from Rick Bender, President of the Washington State Labor Council: We regret the incident. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Update on &#8216;worker privacy&#8217; bill investigation</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:57:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Niki Reading</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just got an e-mail and phone call from Sgt. Freddy Williams with the Washington State Patrol about this morning&#8217;s press release on the investigation surrounding the &#8216;worker privacy&#8217; bill. Here&#8217;s what he can say (not much): • The Washington State Patrol has received a request to look into potential criminal allegations surrounding communications pertaining [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Worker privacy&#8217; bill is dead after email linking contributions to votes</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 15:45:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Niki Reading</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just got a statement from Governor Chris Gregoire, House Speaker Frank Chopp and Senate Majority Leader Lisa Brown: The so-called &#8216;worker privacy&#8217; bill is dead and there&#8217;s now an investigation over whether an e-mail &#8220;linking potential action on the bill to campaign contributions&#8221; broke the law. The &#8220;worker privacy&#8221; bill was listed as the labor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interesting point: What if there&#8217;s a prayer at the beginning of an otherwise mandatory meeting?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 22:57:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Niki Reading</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m watching the Senate public hearing on the &#8220;Labor Privacy Act.&#8221; During an exchange between Sen. Jenea Holmquist and one of the people testifying (whose name I did not catch), a point came up: What if the &#8220;required meeting&#8221; starts out with a prayer, but continues on as a regular staff meeting? Could you skip [...]]]></description>
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		<title>At the &#8220;Labor Privacy Act&#8221; hearing: 19 pages of people who want to testify</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 22:46:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sen. Jeanne Kohl-Welles just opened discussion on the &#8220;Labor Privacy Act,&#8221; which bars employers from requiring employees to listen to religious or political messages at work. &#8220;There are 19 pages of people signed in and at least 20 who want to testify,&#8221; she said. So she&#8217;s calling people up in panels of three. Each panel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Update: &#8220;Certain communications&#8221; bill live on TVW at 1:30</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 20:45:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Senate equivalent of the bill I wrote about this morning is also getting a hearing today. It&#8217;ll be at 1:30 and live on TVW. Also, the Senate version is sponsored by: Senators Margarita Prentice, Jeanne Kohl-Welles, Karen Keiser, Joe McDermott, Darlene Fairley, Rosa Franklin, Adam Kline, Ed. Murray, Kevin Ranker, Rodney Tom, Paull Shin, [...]]]></description>
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