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.

Members at Macy's Logistics voted last Wednesday to ratify a new four-year contract. The agreement secured wage increases in every year of the contract and the highest pension increases that the group has seen in several years.

This weekend, hundreds of Teamster Shop Stewards from across the state will be gathering in Seattle for our annual Shop Steward Seminar and Appreciation Day.

Are you the parent of a student in need of money for trade school or college? We are now accepting applications for the 2017 Jeff Alfieri Scholarship. The Local 117 Jeff Alfieri Scholarship of up to $2000 is awarded to outstanding students whose parents are members of Teamsters Local 117.

Uber has spent the better part of two years trying to stop their drivers from having a voice. They have repeatedly blocked their drivers’ right to unionize in the courts, run anti-Union ads in the Seattle Times and during a nationally-televised Seahawks game. They even have their own podcast aimed at silencing drivers.

Check out this post. It was written by Farrah Edward, the daughter of one of our amazing members at the Airway Heights Corrections Center near Spokane.

Members of Teamsters 117 who work in the food service industry are sending messages of solidarity to their Brothers and Sisters who work at the Sysco warehouse in Spokane.

Let's congratulate and welcome a group of 14 Transdev dispatchers who voted to become Teamsters in an NLRB election on February 10. The dispatchers join 260 drivers at Transdev who became Teamsters in 2015 and won their first Union contract last July.

Between November 2016 and January 2017, over 2,500 members of Teamsters Local 117 participated in our union’s strategic planning survey.

On February 14, more than 230 members of Teamsters 117 and their families converged on the State Capitol in Olympia for our DOC Lobby Day.

Let's welcome another group of new members from the state's Department of Corrections to our Union. Seven Recreational Specialists who work in supervisory roles at the DOC became Teamsters when the Public Employment Relations Commission certified their bargaining unit on February 17.