Newspaper: Time is Right to Reform Comp System in State

The time for reforming the Washington state workers' compensation system is now, suggests the Tacoma News-Tribune, the state's second-largest newspaper."The state workers' compensation system is simply unsustainable as is. All signs point to the need for reform — all signs, that is, except the signal coming from labor. It's threatening to run candidates against those Dems who don't toe the line," The News Tribune wrote Friday in an editorial.The newspaper cites last fall's decision by Boeing Corp., the state's largest employer, to take its second 787 assembly ...