Labor Ready to Announce Third Quarter 2006 Earnings Results

  
    
  
  
    
      Labor Ready Inc. (NYSE:LRW) will release third quarter 2006 earnings 
      results before the market opens Thursday, Oct. 19, 2006. Management will 
      discuss the results on a live conference call at 11 a.m. Eastern Time (8 
      a.m. Pacific Time) on Thursday, Oct.19.
    
    
      This call is being web cast by Thomson/CCBN and can be accessed at Labor 
      Ready's Web site at www.laborready.com.
    
    
      About Labor Ready
    
    
      Labor Ready is an international provider of temporary employees for 
      manual labor, light industrial and skilled construction jobs, operating 
      under the brand names of Labor Ready, Workforce, Spartan Staffing and 
      CLP Resources. Our customers are primarily small to mid-sized businesses 
      in the transportation, warehousing, hospitality, landscaping, 
      construction, light manufacturing, retail, wholesale, facilities and 
      sanitation industries. Annually, Labor Ready serves approximately 
      300,000 customers and puts more than 600,000 people to work through our 
      more than 900 branch locations in the United States, Canada, and the 
      United Kingdom. For additional information, visit Labor Ready's website 
      at www.laborready.com.
    
  
Labor Ready Inc. (NYSE:LRW) will release third quarter 2006
earnings results before the market opens Thursday, Oct. 19, 2006.
Management will discuss the results on a live conference call at 11
a.m. Eastern Time (8 a.m. Pacific Time) on Thursday, Oct.19.

   This call is being web cast by Thomson/CCBN and can be accessed at
Labor Ready's Web site at www.laborready.com.

   About Labor Ready

   Labor Ready is an international provider of temporary employees
for manual labor, light industrial and skilled construction jobs,
operating under the brand names of Labor Ready, Workforce, Spartan
Staffing and CLP Resources. Our customers are primarily small to
mid-sized businesses in the transportation, warehousing, hospitality,
landscaping, construction, light manufacturing, retail, wholesale,
facilities and sanitation industries. Annually, Labor Ready serves
approximately 300,000 customers and puts more than 600,000 people to
work through our more than 900 branch locations in the United States,
Canada, and the United Kingdom. For additional information, visit
Labor Ready's website at www.laborready.com.