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Employees marched during their breaks in Olympia, Tri-Cities, Seattle, Tacoma, Spokane, Bellingham and other cities demanding a fair union contract. Dubbed Walkout for Washington, 10 walkouts were ...
Western Washington University public service employees and members of the Washington Federation of State Employees union, joined a statewide walkout to demand fair pay and safe staffing levels on ...
Service Employees International Union (SEIU) 1921 1,901,161 [1] RNs, professional, technical and non-professional health care workers; public employees; janitorial and security employees. 2012: SEIU: American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) 1932 1,459,511 Employees of state, county, and municipal governments. 2012 ...
WSECU was founded in 1957 [4] by 40 Washington state government employees. [5] [better source needed] The charter was initially limited to employees of Local No. 443, but expanded in 1958 to include all state employees, Washington State Employees Association and the Washington Federation of State Employees and Credit Union Employees.
Historically, the rapid growth of public employee unions since the 1960s has served to mask an even more dramatic decline in private-sector union membership. At the apex of union density in the 1940s, only about 9.8% of public employees were represented by unions, while 33.9% of private, non-agricultural workers had such representation.
Randall was endorsed by the Washington Federation of State Employees, the largest state workers union in Washington, and which represents other unionized DNR staff members on April 27.
Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is a labor union representing almost 1.9 million workers [2] in over 100 occupations in the United States and Canada. [3] SEIU is focused on organizing workers in three sectors: healthcare (over half of members work in the healthcare field), including hospital, home care and nursing home workers; public services (government employees, including law ...
Gov. Christine Gregoire was sued in late 2008 by the Service Employees International Union’s Local 775 for suggesting that workers’ pay raises be dropped as part of addressing the state’s ...