Late Tuesday night, Michelle Woodrow, our President and Director of Corrections and Law Enforcement, testified before the Senate Ways and Means Committee on how the Senate's recent operating budget proposal would impact members of Teamsters Local 117.

Dozens of Uber and Lyft drivers filled a Seattle City Hall hearing room today to demand better working conditions and a voice.

Today, the Republican State Senate released its 2017-2019 biennial state budget proposal, and there was good, bad and ugly news.

The new issue of our Guardian newsletter is now available. The Guardian focuses on news and information for our members who work at the Department of Corrections.

Now that we’ve reached the midpoint of legislative session, it's a good time for an update on policy issues that impact working families.

Bargaining is heating up at QCD and our members are not standing down. Members voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike after an update meeting yesterday at the Union hall in Tukwila.

Last night, a half a dozen Teamster Union Reps, including Secretary-Treasurer John Scearcy, and Vice President Marcus Williams, visited members at the United Natural Foods, Inc warehouse in Auburn.

Our King County Coalition of Unions negotiated Total Compensation bargaining with the County last year covering basic compensation elements of your contract, which was overwhelmingly ratified by individual bargaining units within the King County Coalition of Unions.

Another group at the state's Department of Corrections has joined Teamsters 117.

Members who work at two more companies - Fleischmann's Vinegar in Sumner and Paco in Seattle - voted overwhelmingly to ratify their contracts this week.

Teamsters who work at US Foods voted overwhelmingly yesterday afternoon to ratify a new 4-year contract.

It was an impressive show of union power: Hundreds of Teamsters 117 Shop Stewards filling a massive auditorium at the Washington State Convention Center in downtown Seattle.

We'll be welcoming seventy DOC Shop Stewards today for our annual meeting here at the Union hall. The meeting precedes our Shop Steward Seminar at the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle tomorrow.

It's a busy weekend coming up. We've got hundreds of Stewards coming into town from all across the state for our annual Shop Stewards Seminar and Appreciation Day. About 270 are expected to gather at the Washington State Convention Center starting at 7:30am on Saturday.