The Newsfeed: Labor & Industries interpreters file wage-theft suit

Plus, carbon auction prices are down this year, and a migrant fishing crew left stranded in Westport still awaits a ruling on their abandonment claim.

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                <h1>The Newsfeed: Labor & Industries interpreters file wage-theft suit</h1>
                <h2><p>Plus, carbon auction prices are down this year, and a migrant fishing crew left stranded in Westport still awaits a ruling on their abandonment claim.</p></h2>
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            <p>Unpaid wage complaints have stacked up against the state’s worker protection agency after a group of interpreters say they’re owed hundreds of thousands of dollars for their services. We take a look at details from the lawsuit.</p>
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<p>Plus, carbon auction prices in Washington are down this year. We’ll give you the latest revenue figures from the controversial program.</p><p>And a crew of Filipino fishermen are still waiting on investigations by both the United States and the Philippines after their employer allegedly abandoned them at the Westport Marina.</p>
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Unpaid wage complaints have stacked up against the state’s worker protection agency after a group of interpreters say they’re owed hundreds of thousands of dollars for their services. We take a look at details from the lawsuit.

Plus, carbon auction prices in Washington are down this year. We’ll give you the latest revenue figures from the controversial program.

And a crew of Filipino fishermen are still waiting on investigations by both the United States and the Philippines after their employer allegedly abandoned them at the Westport Marina.

By Paris Jackson

Paris Jackson is the host of “The Newsfeed”. She’s an Emmy Award-winning journalist with 15+ years in TV news and public media. A former anchor/reporter at KOMO-TV in Seattle. She is an editor-at-large at Cascade PBS. Paris-jackson@cascadepbs.org

By Shannen Ortale

Shannen Ortale is a news producer at Cascade PBS, working primarily on The Newsfeed. She's also produced various documentary projects, including Asahel: The Curtis Collection and Origins: Refuge After War.