Call 800-562-6000 Tell your legislators: “Don’t break the promise of healthcare reform – keep your hands off our healthcare!” ESSB 5905 would strip eligibility for state-funded healthcare for all part-time state, K-12 and higher education employees. ESSB 5905 is unfair. All state, K-12 and higher education employees who work less [...]
SUPPORT THE EVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE WORKERS – SEND EMAIL A group of our Higher Education colleagues at The Evergreen State College in Olympia who are negotiating their first collective bargaining agreement need our help. On May 15, these Evergreen workers voted by a 90 percent margin to authorize job actions [...]
The Senate Majority Coalition through their special interest corporate friends have been waging a media campaign against the House effort to close tax loopholes to fund schools and vital services. The Federation is fighting back. For the next three weeks — into the start of the special legislative session starting [...]
While rescue operations continue in Moore, Okla., after one of the worst and deadliest tornadoes on record that has claimed dozens of lives, with the toll expected to climb, relief efforts are being organized. The Oklahoma State AFL-CIO and central labor council community service liaisons are working through the United [...]
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You’re known by the company you keep and the Federation has a lot of good company fighting bad bills still alive in special session. Today, our coalition partners have produced a pushback piece against ESSB 5905, the bad bill that strips less-than-fulltime state and K-12 workers of their state health [...]
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Gov. Jay Inslee on Monday signed into law ESSB 5024, the Transportation Budget. This is different from the Transportation Revenue package for needed projects that was the subject of a Capitol rally Monday morning. In a move supported by the Federation and Transportation members, the governor vetoed Section 602 of [...]
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Some 250 WFSE/AFSCME Shop Stewards from across the state gave a rousing “Yes” to any possible strike among Student Support Services Staff at The Evergreen State College. They held an impromptu sign-making party and assembled dozens of “On Strike” signs. It came during a lunchtime presentation at the union’s annual [...]
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Call 800-562-6000 Tell your legislators: “Don’t break the promise of healthcare reform – keep your hands off our healthcare!” ESSB 5905 would strip eligibility for state-funded healthcare for all part-time state, K-12 and higher education employees. ESSB 5905 is unfair. All state, K-12 and higher education employees who work less [...]
While rescue operations continue in Moore, Okla., after one of the worst and deadliest tornadoes on record that has claimed dozens of lives, with the toll expected to climb, relief efforts are being organized. The Oklahoma State AFL-CIO and central labor council community service liaisons are working through the United [...]
You’re known by the company you keep and the Federation has a lot of good company fighting bad bills still alive in special session. Today, our coalition partners have produced a pushback piece against ESSB 5905, the bad bill that strips less-than-fulltime state and K-12 workers of their state health [...]
Gov. Jay Inslee on Monday signed into law ESSB 5024, the Transportation Budget. This is different from the Transportation Revenue package for needed projects that was the subject of a Capitol rally Monday morning. In a move supported by the Federation and Transportation members, the governor vetoed Section 602 of [...]
Gov. Jay Inslee today (May 21) is scheduled to sign more bills into law, including a few Federation members may have been following: Engrossed Second Substitute Senate Bill No. 5389 Relating to sibling visitation or contact for children in foster care. This is a bill that Federation had concerns about. [...]
Arbitration Summary GG 13-03 Agency/Contract: ESD, GG 11-13 Contract Article(s): Art. 27, Discipline; Art. 29.7, Election of Remedies Arbitrator: Anthony Vivenzio Action: Discipline- Termination Outcome: Grievance Denied but Record of Discipline Modified Decision Date: 02/19/2013 The issue in this case was whether [...]
Federation and AFSCME Council 2 members joined with hundreds of other union members at Monday morning’s Capitol rally to support a Transportation funding package. “Do your job so we can do ours!” said one of dozens of signs – and one cited by Gov. Jay Inslee in his speech to [...]
Alice Rogers, a Tri-Cities Local 1253 shop steward and member from the Department of Corrections, received the “Laurie Merta Shop Steward of the Year” Award Saturday night. Laurie’s sister, Leslie Merta, presented the award to Rogers as other nominees looked on. The award was renamed this year in honor of [...]
Mark Nolan of Local 53, who works for the DSHS Division of Developmental Disabilities in Tacoma, won the “Shop Steward Essay Contest” May 18 at WFSE/AFSCME’s annual Shop Steward Conference in Seatac. Mark wrote in his winning essay: “It means I don’t expect to know everything or do everything by [...]
Some 250 WFSE/AFSCME Shop Stewards from across the state gave a rousing “Yes” to any possible strike among Student Support Services Staff at The Evergreen State College. They held an impromptu sign-making party and assembled dozens of “On Strike” signs. It came during a lunchtime presentation at the union’s annual [...]
Digital Shorts Shop Stewards were invited to submit videos – digital shorts – for the conference. Watch the videos that were submitted. Local 1299 Movie Local 1253 Shop Stewards SIA March 2013
Arbitration Summary UW 13-01 Agency/Contract: UW, Campuswide 11-13 Contract Article(s): Article 23: Corrective Action Arbitrator: Janet Gaunt Action: Discipline, Formal Counseling Outcome: Grievance Sustained Decision Date: 03/26/2013 The issue in this case was whether the employer had just cause to issue a formal counseling to a 33-year employee who was [...]
Join our partners in the revenue coalition putting up yard signs in key legislative districts to urge lawmakers to close tax loopholes and put kids and communities first. The next wave of yard sign posting: Tuesday, May 21 — 41st Dist. (Mercer Island), 5-8 p.m. Meet at Newcastle City Hall. [...]
Arbitration Summary GG 13-04 Agency/Contract: DSHS, GG 11-13 Contract Article(s): Article 27: Discipline, Just Cause Arbitrator: Eduardo Escamilla Action: Discipline, Suspension Outcome: Grievance Sustained in Part (Suspension days reduced) Decision Date: 04/26/2013 The issue in this case was whether the employer had just cause to discipline the grievant on claims [...]
SUPPORT THE EVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE WORKERS – SEND EMAIL A group of our Higher Education colleagues at The Evergreen State College in Olympia who are negotiating their first collective bargaining agreement need our help. On May 15, these Evergreen workers voted by a 90 percent margin to authorize job actions [...]
In the wake of Wednesday’s vote by Federation Student Support Services Staff Union members at The Evergreen State College to take actions up to and including a strike, the college sent an e-mail that the union is responding to with this statement: Why President Purce got it wrong in his [...]
Tell Senators to support a final budget that puts kids and communities before tax loopholes. The House and governor’s budget proposals are the high-water marks. The House budget prioritizes kids and the safety net over loopholes. It’s a sustainable, credible budget – and it doesn’t treat part-time state employees as [...]
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The Senate Majority Coalition on Wednesday (May 15) launched another attack on Middle Class families when Sen. Michael Baumgartner of the 6th Dist. introduced Wisconsin-style legislation. SB 5935 attacks collective bargaining rights by forcing union members to carry the full funding load for the representation and other services all represented [...]
This call to action from our partners in the Transportation funding coalition: We are at a critical point moving into the State Legislature’s special session. Still on the table is a transportation funding package that would fund the Puget Sound Gateway Project which will complete SR-167 and Hwy 509. This [...]
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