The battle is won, but the war has just started  On 08/10/14 at 11:59 P.M., the polls closed for Teamsters at the Department of Corrections.  When the count was...Read More

Get interest arbitration updates sent to your mobile phone!  TEXT DOC TO 206-452-1840.  This Monday, August 18 is the first day of our interest arbitration hearing designed to help settle...Read More

Washington State correctional employees, represented by Teamsters Local 117, have voted by an overwhelming margin to reject the State’s Last, Best, and Final proposal for their 2015-2017 collective bargaining agreement. ...Read More

Teamsters at the Department of Corrections will have the opportunity to vote on the State's last contract proposal for their 2015-2017 collective bargaining agreement. Your Union's bargaining committee is unanimously...Read More

Brenda Wiest, your Union's Legislative Affairs Coordinator, was honored at the Washington State Labor Council (WSLC) convention in Wenatchee on Tuesday with the 2014 Elsie Schrader Award for the advancement of...Read More

Check out the new issue of your Union's Teamster Talk newsletter!  This issue contains articles on: Teamsters volunteering for the Emergency Food Network Local 117 members in the grocery industry...Read More

Hundreds of Teamsters at three grocery warehouses – Safeway, SuperValu, and Unified Grocers – voted overwhelmingly to ratify their contracts over the weekend. The agreements contain annual wage increases and...Read More

Teamsters 117: By now you will have received your Primary Election ballot. I want to emphasize the importance of voting in this election, and to ask you to consider supporting...Read More

The numbers facing the men and women who make a career in corrections are troubling to say the least: Of all U.S. workers, correctional officers have one of the highest...Read More

As you know, the King County Coalition of Unions bargained a tentative agreement that includes cost-of-living increases for all impacted County employees in 2015 and 2016.  The agreement also includes a flat lump...Read More