We’ve come a long way since the last issue of our Guardian newsletter. We completed the bargaining process and achieved some meaningful improvements to our DOC contract.

Late yesterday afternoon, our Coalition of Unions achieved a tentative agreement with the County over all compensation elements in your contract. The agreement is fully recommended by your Union bargaining committee.

Teamsters joined other union members and community activists at Seattle City Hall yesterday to speak out in favor of secure scheduling for workers in the fast food and retail industries.

Safeway Dairy Shop Stewards, Alan Inderbitzen and Andy Peterson, work each day producing milk products and ensuring that their Teamsters contract is enforced.

Last Friday was the final day of our interest arbitration hearing. We used the opportunity to emphasize our main argument in the case.

Host of rank and file members provide first hand accounts of working for DOC

On the third day of our interest arbitration hearing, your Director of Research, Paul Marvy, along with financial experts retained by your Union, provided detailed and well-researched evidence of the dramatic disparity in pay between corrections employees in Washington State compared with other Western states.

In the second day of our interest arbitration hearing, I provided lengthy testimony to explain the basis for several of our bargaining proposals to Arbitrator Howell Lankford.

Today was the first day of our interest arbitration hearing for DOC employees. The hearing was held in Tacoma and runs through the end of the week.

Thank you so much to everyone who helped make our 7th annual Local 117 Soccer Tournament a big success!

Our interest arbitration hearing for members at the Department of Corrections starts today and will run for the rest of the week.

When Uber drivers come together and speak out with one voice, good things happen. Just two days after drivers packed a hearing room at City Hall to demand swift, fair implementation of the City’s new collective bargaining law, the company announced that it would raise its minimum fare from $4.00 to $4.80.

Whatever the arbitrator decides in our upcoming interest arbitration hearing next week, one thing is clear. We'll need to come together to hold the State accountable so that we can get our contract funded.

James Williams knew he was getting shortchanged. His contract had clear language stating that employees were entitled to overtime pay when they worked in excess of 40 hours during the week.

At the recent delegates meeting of the Martin Luther King County Labor Council, AFL-CIO, regular business was suspended for a special event to honor those Unions and their leadership for exceptional achievements on behalf of working people.