Our current $12 billion budget crisis is in large part a result of our state’s inequitable tax code that relies on those with the least to pay the most. It's inefficient and it's unfair.
After a hard fight, WFSE members received an arbitration opinion vindicating our nine Department of Corrections members who teach Defensive Tactics courses who had been unfairly excluded from receiving assignment pay.
It was 10 years ago this month that the 2008 financial crisis kicked into high gear. When storied Wall Street bank Lehman Brothers shut down, bankers walking out of the building carrying cardboard boxes of their possessions made the perfect image for TV cameras.
RALLY at Western State Hospital (WSH) FRI Sep7 from 1-3pm. Gather at the flagpole.
AFSCME members in Washington state are demanding solutions to ensure worker safety after one of their co-workers – sister Christa Butters – was assaulted by a patient who had a history of violence.
No politician running for office today would openly advocate for more wealth inequality in our country, where the richest 1 percent of the population owns 40 percent of the wealth.
Even candidate Donald Trump in 2016 promised to stand up for the “forgotten men and women of our country,” who feel betrayed by a rigged economic system that benefits a small minority at their expense.
Yet every single day, President Trump and congressional leaders seem determined to do more to increase wealth inequality than to alleviate it; do more for corporations and the wealthy than for single parents working two or three jobs to make ends meet.
Belwo is the list of endorsements made at the April 28 AFSCME Council 28 (WFSE) Endorsements Conference.
FEDERAL RACES
U.S. Senate
Maria Cantwell, D*
U.S. Congress
CD 1: Suzan DelBene, D* CD 3: Carolyn Long, D CD 5: Lisa Brown, D CD 6: Derek Kilmer, D* CD 7: Pramila Jayapal, D* CD 8: (dual) Jason Rittereiser, D, and Kim Schrier, D CD 9: Adam Smith, D* CD 10: Denny Heck, D*
Unite for Justicesponsored rallies across the country today to #StopKavanaugh from being selected for the Supreme Courty (SCOTUS).
According to Unite for Justice:
People across the country are rising up to demand that their Senators stop Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination, and protect our most fundamental rights. Everyone agrees: the balance of the Supreme Court is on the line with this lifetime appointment.
