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Bargaining Team Election Process Begins in October

Who will represent you at the bargaining table with your employer to negotiate your 2025-2027 contract? It’s time to decide.

Union Victory! First Freelance Interpreters Union Expands

After a bizarre disinformation campaign by a billionaire-funded, anti-worker think tank, spoken language interpreters who take appointments from the Department of Labor and Industries (LNI) have voted to unionize and join the Washington Federation of State Employees (WFSE), AFSCME Council 28

Major Win for Public Employee Privacy, Loss for Freedom Foundation

The impacts of HB 1533, a bill our members fought for and passed, felt as the latest Freedom Foundation request for public employees' personal information is shot down by the Supreme Court.

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.

RECRUITMENT Organizer/Journey Organizer, Seattle

 

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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

WFSE Local 443 Member Earns Promotion With AFSCME Free College

Thanks to her hard work in the AFSCME Free College program, WFSE Local 443 member Kaycee Keys was recently promoted to Fiscal Analyst 4 at the Department of Social and Health Services, earning a significant pay raise. 

Keys found her way to this new position through perseverance, a desire to help others, and public service.

After finding herself in difficult times, Keys learned about DSHS employment programming when she visited an office to apply for food stamps.