Labor Ready, Inc., Tacoma, Wash.

Labor Ready, Inc. (www.laborready.com), the nation's leading provider of temporary manual labor, signed a National Universal Agreement to Mediate on May 12, 2004, with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.  Cari M. Dominguez, U.S. EEOC Chair, and Joe Sambataro, Labor Ready President and CEO, signed the groundbreaking agreement to resolve workplace disputes informally through Alternative Dispute Resolution.  Tacoma-based Labor Ready serves more than 275,000 customers by putting nearly 600,000 people to work each year. 

Stites & Harbison helps keep Labor Ready ready by providing labor and employment legal services.  Shannon Antle Hamilton chairs our firm's labor, employment and immigration section.