What we're able to pass this legislative session will determine how much money there is to negotiate for when we enter contract negotiations in the spring.
Who will represent you at the table with your employer? It’s time to decide. The power of our union is in solidarity: the strength and influence we have when we join forces as WFSE members to protect our jobs, families and communities. That’s what bargaining is all about.
Earlier this month, 400 WFSE members representing nearly 50 local unions and tens of thousands of workers gathered for our union 51st biennial convention.
We reflected on our wins, celebrated our activism, elected our leaders, and charted a course forward.
Winning our next union contract starts with YOU. Last bargaining cycle, we mobilized en masse and refused to accept a bad deal for public workers, winning 5 percent general wage increases and hundreds of job-class specific increases when budget projections were down and the employer was offering 1% over two years.
When American Behavioral Health Systems (ABHS) van driver and WFSE Local 2824 member Kayla Roundtree realized a discrepancy in sick time accrual was shorting her and her coworkers of their earned hours, she took action with her union and made it right.
From Wenatchee, Okanagan, Tri-Cities and Moses Lake to Tacoma, Olympia, Seattle, and the entire Westside, we showed what happens when our union moves as one!
The Washington Federation of State Employees calls for the immediate release of our member and DCYF juvenile rehabilitation employee Sarah Shaw (Local 341) and her son, Isaac, who have been illegally detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
