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Evergreen Workers Push Management for Snow Day Compensation

Evergreen Workers Push Management for Snow Day Compensation

Apr. 12, 2019

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Evergreen Workers Push Management for Snow Day Compensation

OLYMPIA, Wash. — When this year’s snow storm hit, the Evergreen State College failed to consider the economic impact on its lowest paid employees, denying them suspended operations pay. But 74 members took action, joining together in a group grievance.

Evergreen Workers Push Management for Snow Day Compensation

Facing More Assaults, WA Psychiatric Hospital Workers Call for Funds

Facing More Assaults, WA Psychiatric Hospital Workers Call for Funds

Apr. 10, 2019

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Facing More Assaults, WA Psychiatric Hospital Workers Call for Funds

OLYMPIA, Wash. - Employees at Washington's state-owned psychiatric hospitals say there's an urgent need to boost funding for their facilities, citing growing safety concerns for staff and patients.

Facing More Assaults, WA Psychiatric Hospital Workers Call for Funds

AFSCME Celebrates National Library Workers Day

AFSCME Celebrates National Library Workers Day

Apr. 10, 2019

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AFSCME Celebrates National Library Workers Day

All-knowing sources of information. Tour guides to the highways and byways of history. The friendly voice of a morning story time.

AFSCME Celebrates National Library Workers Day

We Carry on Dr. King’s Fight

Apr. 04, 2019

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Apr. 04, 2019

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We Carry on Dr. King’s Fight

Fifty-one years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. traveled to Memphis to help rally the community around 1,300 AFSCME sanitation workers who had gone on strike.

We Carry on Dr. King’s Fight

To Close the Gender Pay Gap, First a Voice on the Job

To Close the Gender Pay Gap, First a Voice on the Job

Apr. 02, 2019

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To Close the Gender Pay Gap, First a Voice on the Job

In the 1980s, I was living and going to school in Minnesota when women who worked for state government won a big victory. They got the state to increase the pay of women in “female dominated jobs” by passing a pay equity bill. In other words, they put a dent in the gender pay gap.

To Close the Gender Pay Gap, First a Voice on the Job