Like many DCYF workers in Washington, Taylor Andrews-Garcelon loves her clients but has felt her job get more stressful and dangerous in the last few years.
It’s Working People’s Day of Action in advance of the US Supreme Court hearing Monday on the bad Janus case. Hundreds of WFSE/AFSCME members gathered today in SeaTac at our first Day of Action event to say:
“We’re sticking with our union—no matter what Washington DC says.”
The economy has been rigged against working people by CEOs, billionaires and the politicians who do their bidding. On Saturday, February 24, thousands of working people across the country will stand united to say: un-rig the system.
Fifty years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. joined striking sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee, as they fought for the freedom to join together in a strong union and be treated with digity and respect at work. They carried signs that boldly proclaimed, "I AM A MAN."
Local 1066 fights yet another proposed increase in parking rates.
Eric Needham, Local 1066 Secretary and WFSE representative on WSU’s Parking Committee, staved off a Valentine’s Day vote on a proposed 2.8% parking increase slated for next year.
Eric demanded that the vote be tabled until the Committee was able to review the Parking budget.
Full transparency from WSU is needed, especially in this time of a self-inflicted budget crisis. Local 1066 members are still fighting a unilateral cost increase imposed at the beginning of the school year.
WSU student journalist exposes critical deferred maintenance issue we should all care about
From the Washington State University Daily Evergreen campus newspaper in Pullman.
Note: Our Local 1066 members there have also raised the alarm on this issue because they take their job seriously -- keeping the WSU Pullman community safe and sound and a good place to learn and work.
Here’s some of what WSU journalist Luke Hudson wrote Feb. 20:
