Good news from Olympia! Our legislation to grant interest arbitration rights to our members at DOC and the University of Washington Police Department (UWPD) (SB5021/SB5022) cleared a first, important hurdle in the Senate yesterday when the Senate Labor and Commerce Committee unanimously voted to pass both bills out of committee.

With the 2019 legislative session kicking off in Olympia this week, bills that would grant interest arbitration rights to our Department of Corrections (DOC) and University of Washington Police Department (UWPD) members are already starting to roll. 

Looking for a meaningful way to spend the upcoming MLK weekend? Come march with other members of Teamsters 117!

It’s political season again, as lawmakers in Washington State returned to Olympia today for the start of the 2019 legislative session.

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What an incredible show of solidarity today for Teamsters who work at Transdev.

Now that 2019 has arrived, Teamsters who work at the WA State Department of Corrections can look forward to much-deserved wage increases that our union achieved through the interest arbitration process.

All Teamsters 117 bargaining units have voted resoundingly to ratify the total comp agreement and their individual appendix agreements.

It was another fun-filled holiday meeting at the Teamsters hall last night. Hundreds of members and their families packed the main auditorium and overflow room as we raffled off dozens of gifts, including a couple of mammoth tvs!