We're live! After months of work, our Union's communications team launched our new Teamsters 117 website over the weekend. 

The global pandemic has brought immense challenges for our Union and our communities, but it hasn’t stopped us from thinking strategically and planning for the future.

Our Union Negotiations Committee met with the State on Wednesday, July 1, to continue to discuss impacts related to changes that are occurring due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Today, Uber and Lyft drivers with the Drivers Union called recommendations released in an independent academic study of Uber/Lyft driver earnings in Seattle a “major step towards fairness,” while calling for additional measures to ensure a living wage for drivers and transparency for riders.   

You may have seen in the news that the Governor has announced he is cancelling raises and issuing mandatory furloughs for some state employees.

We have received a lot of questions and concerns about how the pandemic might impact your previously negotiated general wage increase.

Last Friday, members of our Union joined 60,000 others in a peaceful, silent march to protest the murder of George Floyd and to engage in the urgent and longstanding efforts against racism.

As the coronavirus crisis has touched all of our lives, our Union at King County has been working to adapt.

The murder of our brother George Floyd saddens us deeply as it marks yet another case of an unjust killing of an unarmed black man.

With so much turmoil facing our communities, we also wanted to highlight inspirational stories of members and their families within our Union.

Our Union Bargaining Committee headed into contract negotiations with the State this week over our 2021-2023 DOC collective bargaining agreement for Teamsters at the DOC.