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Jayme Biendl Memorial Run
Jan 29, 2012
Sky River Park, 818 Village Way Monroe, Washington 98272
E-Board Meeting
Feb 09, 2012
Teamsters Building, Tukwila
Steward Advisory Council
Feb 11, 2012
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Mar 08, 2012
Teamsters Building, Tukwila
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Mar 09, 2012
Best Western Executive Inn, 200 Taylor Ave. N, Seattle Washington

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Passionately providing a voice to the membership,Teamsters Local Union No. 117 empowers and unites workers. With integrity and an unwavering dedication to economic and social justice, we organize, educate, and lead collective and political action to protect and expand the rights, wages and benefits of working families. This is your Union.

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Secretary-Treasurer's Message

Brothers and Sisters:

With the ever escalating war on the middle class, it seems that this past year has been one long battle. Fighting to ensure that our members work in a safe environment; fighting against greedy corporations who seek to increase their record profits by taking medical benefits and retirement security away from their workers; fighting to ensure dignity and respect for every worker; fighting to protect the American Dream. Read more

What's New at Local 117:
OFFICERS' UNIFORM BILL EXE'D OUT OF COMMITTEE!
It was an impressive show of force. Teamster correctional employees from across the State, along with representatives of the Sheriffs, State Patrol, Firefighters and State Labor Council, packed into a cramped hearing room on Friday to voice their support of HB 2346, a bill that would exempt officers from wearing uniforms made by inmates. Read More...
REMEMBERING OFFICER JAYME LEE BIENDL (1976-2011)
January 29th marks the one-year anniversary of the death of Jayme Lee Biendl, the State correctional officer who was tragically murdered in the prison chapel of the Monroe Correctional Complex last year. Jayme’s savage murder had a devastating impact on our State’s corrections’ employees. Read More...
RECYCLE AND YARD WASTE WORKERS GEAR UP FOR CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS
"The future is in recycling,” said Secretary-Treasurer Tracey A. Thompson as the initial demands meeting for Local 117 members working for Waste Management got underway on January 14. Read More...
LETTER TO THE WWUB SUPPORTS HB2346 - OFFICER UNIFORM BILL
Your Local Union's Secretary-Treasurer, Tracey A. Thompson, has published a letter to the editors of the Walla Walla Union Bulletin in suppoprt of HB 2346, a bill that would exempt correctional officers from wearing uniforms made by inmates.  The letter responds to an editorial published in the WWUB last week. Read More...
CRITICAL HEARING ON UNIFORM BILL - FRIDAY, JAN. 27
CRITICAL HEARING ON UNIFORM BILL - HB 2346:  Very exciting news! HB 2346 (the officer uniform bill) will be heard before the Public Safety & Emergency Preparedness Committee on Friday, January 27th at 8:00am in House Hearing Room D. To learn more about the bill, click here. Read More...
January 28, 2012

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