Together, we convinced the legislature to fund record-setting contracts that will make our workplaces safer, improve recruitment and retention, address significant pay disparities, and improve access to vital services for all Washingtonians.
There's a lot going on for WFSE Department of Correction Members: an arbitration award resulting in significant raises for our 2023-25 contract, workload concerns, important legislation, union organizing in WMS, and much more. Find everything you need here in the Corrections Corner.
Bill would bring back state Productivity Board, employee suggestion program
The program that generated millions of dollars in taxpayer savings thanks to employees’ “Brainstorm” ideas may live again under a new bill that would re-establish the state Productivity Board.
The board was suspended in 2011 as a cost-saving measure brought on by The Great Recession.
Taking center stage next week: Capital Budget, plus our priority bills on PSERS, social workers, campus police, affordable housing, prescription drug costs, shared leave
Next week is a big week for our issues and priority legislation.
Taxpayer Protection Act hits home in wake of damning audit report on outsourcing
AFSCME Council 28 (WFSE) Taxpayer Protection Act may be needed now more than ever just days after a legislative audit report questioned the value of outsourcing state work in the agency charged with managing many business and operational services in state government.
Stop the layoffs, make the investments, WFSE/AFSCME member tells Senate panel on Capital Construction Budget
Statewide Parks Local 1466 member Brian Yearout spoke for all of us Thursday (Jan. 11) when he called on the Senate to act on the Capital Construction Budget to stop project delays and the layoffs of 500 state employees.
“Several of my valuable co-workers have already been let go,” Yearout told the Senate Ways and Means Committee.
Supplemental Budget advocacy moves to Senate (SB 6032)
AFSCME Council 28 (WFSE) gave applause and raised concerns on the governor’s supplemental budget proposal Tuesday (Jan. 9), this time in the Senate Ways and Means Committee on SB 6032.
