Local delegates, executive board members, and member of PEOPLE, our union's political action fund, came together on April 27 to decide which candidates our union endorses in a critical 2024 election season.
Members of WFSE, SEIU 1199NW, SEIU 925 and WSNA were joined by UW students and community members on Wednesday at Harborview and UW Medical Center to rally for respect and a fair wage increase.
Hospital employees from nurses to custodians turned out in union shirts and masks with signs declaring, “Respect Us, Protect Us, Pay Us.”
Workers from several unions spoke to the gathered crowd.
“When Sibley graduates from college, he wants to be a business owner,” said Sibley’s mother, Carla Cooper-Haamid, a Student Services Representative and WFSE Local 793 member.
“I’m proud of him,” she said.
Cooper-Haamid has every reason to be proud.
Sibley applied for the scholarship on his own and was selected out of hundreds of national applicants.
AFSCME President Lee Saunders released the following statement about the sudden passing of AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka today:
“We’ve lost one of the nation’s fiercest, most effective advocates for working people ever. From his earliest days working in the coal mines of Pennsylvania, Rich has lived the values of the labor movement with the greatest passion and purpose. He has touched and improved so many lives.
After winning hazard pay in March of 2020 — a first for public service workers in Washington state—WFSE Local 304 members at Seattle Colleges did it again.
How?
For the first time ever, the 2021 UALE Summer Institute for Union Women (SIUW) will be virtual and includes activists from across the country. The school begins this Thursday, August 5.
