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Local 872: Taco plates and contract debates

Nothing can stop WFSE Local 872 from getting together to envision a better contract — not even a swarm of chile-verde-hungry yellow jackets!

AFSCME partners to host webinars on public service loan forgiveness

AFSCME is committed to helping you get the student debt relief you deserve.

Thanks to the Biden administration, millions of public service workers, including AFSCME members, are eligible for student loan forgiveness under the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program or (PSLF). And even more public service workers are eligible under a temporary waiver that expires Oct. 31, 2022. 

Success! Largest-Ever Compensation Package Achieved at GG

We won because we showed decisions-makers and the public that our fight is not just for our jobs and families, but for our communities as well.

L&I Interpreters Choose Union, Not “Freedom” Foundation

L&I interpreters overcame divisions that the Freedom Foundation tried to exploit and chose to unionize for their profession and the patients they serve.

As workers organize from coast to coast, approval of labor unions continues to rise

Graph of the Gallup poll.

As workers continue to organize throughout the country – from cultural institutions to S

Former WFSE Member, Local Pres. Named Interim Executive Director

As a fish hatchery specialist with the Department of Fish and Wildlife in 1998, Kurt Spiegel was lucky. He had a good state job, and even better he had a great coworker—a friend to learn the ropes with as they navigated state service.

DCYF Vancouver MAT Team Scores Win for Foster Youth

WFSE members ran a successful petition that ended years of inaction from the state on the issue of housing foster children in hotel rooms.

Supt. Reykdal: Let Scientists Manage State-Owned Forests

In keeping with the resolution passed by the Washington Federation of State Employees (WFSE) Natural Resources Policy Committee earlier this year and the letter sent by WFSE to the Board of Natural Resources and the Commissioner of Public Lands, the following statement is in response to Superintendent of Public Instruction Chris Reykdal's proposal to cea

A union voice can help address burnout among health care workers nationwide

The COVID-19 pandemic arrived at a time when our nation’s health care workers were already experiencing burnout. The National Academy of Medicine, in a report from 2019, said that 35% to 54% of nurses and physicians in the United States had “substantial symptoms of burnout.”

Then things got worse.