The message is loud and clear. By an overwhelming margin, DOC Teamsters have voted to reject the State’s contract proposal.

Our union coalition team was back at the negotiations table with King County yesterday as we continue to bargain over your wages and health care for 2019-2020.

Access to good health care is critical for State employees, but so far the State is not getting the message.

We will be holding a contract vote for Teamsters who work at the State Department of Corrections for their 2019-2021 collective bargaining agreement.

Last week, we said goodbye to our summer intern for 2018, Clara Raftery. Clara has joined us to help with Family.Strength.Community campaign and did wonderful work in engaging our members in face of the Janus case ruling.

Our union is excited to welcome two new employees to complement our outstanding administrative staff in the dues office. Vanessa Zavala-Gonzalez and Haley Silvernale began their Local 117 adventure in July.

Matt Komperda has been a union member his entire adult life and a shop steward on and off for eleven years. Now he’s using that wealth of experience to work as a Union Representative for Teamsters 117.

Hot dogs sizzled on the grill as DOC members grabbed a bite to eat and discussed an upcoming contract vote and the need to stay strong given a recent Supreme Court ruling that threatens our union.

Our DOC negotiations team worked late into the night on Friday and early into Saturday morning after a long week in mediation with the State in an effort to resolve the elements of our 2019-2021 collective bargaining agreement that we were unable to reach agreement on

Our DOC negotiations team worked late into the night on Friday and early into Saturday morning after a long week in mediation in an effort to reach an agreement with the State over our 2019-2021 collective bargaining agreement.

If you have not already voted yet in the primary election – which is Tuesday, August 7 – please do so!  There are some really important races on the ballot in 2018 and we’re all Teamsters – which means we vote!

“We work every day. We place ourselves at risk of injury and death just to feed our families. For the State not to acknowledge that is offensive.” - Kathe Jackson