David Groves at The Stand writes:
On Thursday, rather than congratulating all parties involved [for reaching a tentative agreement] — perhaps even the governor for his role in helping prompt the apparent resolution of a long, contentious dispute — The Seattle Times editorialized that it was a “close call” and chastised Inslee for the fourth time in the past few weeks for being “willing to imperil sales and world market share for an industry worth billions to this state and the inland West.”
But what about Mitsui? This international corporation locked out its employees. These workers didn’t want to go on strike. They were willing to continue working amid negotiations for a new contract. Instead, Mitsui’s aggressive gambit to cut wages and benefits — and perhaps get rid of the union completely — created a volatile picket line of justifiably angry employees. Surely, the company’s lock-out-and-starve-out strategy also “imperiled” the region’s multibillion-dollar grain industry, no?
Mitsui is not even mentioned in the Times editorial.