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.
Juvenile rehab investments needed if institutions keep older residents
It might increase success to keep young offenders in state juvenile rehabilitation facilities until their age 25 ½ , but success needs investment in those institutions.
That’s what AFSCME Council 28 (WFSE) Lobbyist Matt Zuvich told the House Early Learning and Human Service Committee Tuesday (Jan. 30) on HB 2907.
AFSCME Council 28 (WFSE) urges passage of bill to protect privacy of state employee victims of sexual harassment
AFSCME Council 28 (WFSE) on Tuesday (Jan. 30) urged a House committee to pass a bill to protect the privacy of state employees who blow the whistle on sexual harassment.
HB 2778 would prohibit state agencies from disclosing to the Freedom Foundation, media or anyone else any personal information about any stare employee who makes a sexual harassment claim.
Our priority #MeToo campaign sparks poignant House hearing
Thanks to the increased awareness from the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements, the effort to expand the mission to purge Washington’s worksites of non-sexual harassment as well sparked a poignant hearing Monday (Jan. 29) in the House Labor and Workplace Standards Committee.
House Bill 2888 addresses workplace bullying by making it an unfair labor practice to subject an employee to an abusive work environment.
EXCLUSIVE: This morning AFSCME Council 28 (WFSE) Executive Director Greg Devereux on KGY radio worldwide outlined our package of bills aimed at helping middle class state workers.
“We need desperately to address some of the economic issues in this country and we think by bringing up social worker debt relief, affordable housing and shared leave (that) these are things that will help the Middle Class,” Devereux told KGY interviewer Nat George.
“Resist the gravitational pull of politics” and restore Affirmative Action, WFSE/AFSCME leader tells senators
AFSCME Council 28 (WFSE) Executive Board member Kevin Allen -- on behalf of all of us – Friday (Jan. 26) called on legislators to pass legislation to repeal Initiative 200, the 1998 ballot measure that ended Affirmative Action.
