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Local 117 Press Releases

• Teamsters at Coke make unconditional return to work offer - August 30, 2010
• Coke employees file suit against company for canceling health care - Aug. 27, 2010
• Coke cancels health care for employees who paid their premiums - Aug. 25, 2010
• Coke provokes strike over employee surveillance, failure to bargain - August 23, 2010
• Teamsters inform Seahawks fans about Coke's plan to slash health care - Aug. 21, 2010
• Teamsters call on Coke to stop eliminating good jobs, slashing health cre - Aug. 20, 2010
• Teamsters demand health care protections for Coke employees - August 10, 2010
• Teamsters vow to help King County contain costs, solve structural mess - July 13, 2010
• Lumpers demand an end to exploitative working conditions - June 11, 2010
• Teamsters haulers reach tentative agreement with Republic - April 1, 2010
• Teamsters say Waste Management threatens area jobs - March 31, 2010
• King County sanitation workers raise pickets at Waste Management and Republic Services - March 25, 2010
• Sanitation workers poised for possible strike - Feb. 4, 2010
• Strike looms at Pike Place Market - Jan. 23, 2010
• Pike Place Market PDA walks out on Union offer of lower wages - Jan. 15, 2010
• Union Summit to highlight community service - Sept. 29, 2009
• Public Safety Advocates Play Pivotal Role in Halting the Closure of McNeil Island - April 29,2009
• Teamsters Corrections’ Employees Ratify Two-Year Deal – April 8, 2009
• Corrections Budget Proposals Present Public Safety Risk, Advocates say – April 1, 2009
• Union, Rights Groups Decry Early Release of Prisoners – March 31, 2009
• Prison Workers to Meet with State Representatives in Olympia – December 3, 2008
• Prison Workers to Hold Evening Rally – October 15, 2008
• Teamsters Reject State’s DOC Contract Proposal – September 29, 2008
• Bargaining Kicks off at Seattle’s Pike Place Market – August 20, 2008
• New Leadership at Major Teamsters Local – August 20, 2008

Local 117 Letters to the Editor

• Teamsters defend workers, public safety - published in the Union Bulletin on May 21, 2010
• Public-sector employees defended - published in the Columbian on January 10, 2010
• Stop bashing County workers - published in the Seattle PI on September 25, 2009
• Long Overdue Reform – published in the Tacoma News Tribune on April 5, 2009
• Credit also Due Correctional Workers – published in the Tacoma News Tribune on March 2, 2009 
• Market’s PDA Resists Increasing Workers’ Wages – published in the Seattle Times on October 21, 2008

Local 117 Editorials

• Union wants clarity - not an end to volunteer efforts - published in the Tacoma News Tribune on August 4, 2010
• State workers shouldn't bear all of the burden - published in the Tacoma News Tribune on March 2, 2010
• Mothballing prison units in Washington state a long-term mistake - published in the Walla Walla Union Bulletin on November 10, 2009
• Stop Scapegoating King County Employees over Budget Woes – published in the Seattle Times on August 26, 2009

Other Local 117 News

• Summit celebrates labor's contributions to the community (October 21, 2009
• News from Local 117's press conference on April 1, 2009