For the first time in institutional memory, the PROTEC17 Portland Chapter failed to reach a tentative agreement with the City of Portland during regular bargaining and moved to mediation with [...]

For more than 18 months, PROTEC17 has been bargaining with Sound Transit to establish a first contract for exempt workers, and to integrate newly certified groups into an existing [...]

The PROTEC17 State negotiating team reached a tentative agreement on Sept. 17 on the 2027-2029 Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) after months of frustrating negotiations with the Office of Financial Management [...]

With the PROTEC17 City of Seattle contract set to expire at the end of the year, the Coalition of City Unions (CCU) started to gear up for bargaining the next [...]

Since it’s founding in 2011, the PROTEC17 scholarship program has awarded $92,000 in awards to help members’ dependents in their pursuit of a higher education. We are proud to announce [...]

The wildfires that have been raging in Spokane County over the past week have been devastating — hundreds of homes and structures lost, tens of thousands evacuated, and neighborhoods changed [...]

Since 2015, infants up to the age of six months have been welcome in the workplace at Spokane Regional Health District (SRHD). Back then, current SRHD Chapter President Katie Rand [...]

For parents, newborns, and children under age five in King County, the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program is a lifeline. Throughout the county, this program provides food benefits [...]

Seattle is the first city in the U.S. to implement social housing – a public, not-for-profit housing development strategy that aims to provide high quality housing for residents across a [...]

For PROTEC17 member Rob Foxcurran, the role of King County Assessor feels like the perfect fit. Currently, he works for the City of Seattle as a Senior Appraiser where he [...]

Negotiations for the 2027-2029 contract with the State of Washington began in April and will continue through the summer in order to reach a deal by the state-mandated October [...]

PROTEC17 members at King County organized an event to protest King County Executive Girmay Zahilay’s three-day in-office mandate, and hand delivered a giant blank check to his representative on [...]

Every year on May 1st, workers across the globe march, strike, and declare that their labor has dignity and their voices deserve to be heard. International Workers’ Day — or [...]

The PROTEC17 annual scholarship program awards two scholarships to the child, grandchild or dependent of an active member who wishes to continue their education beyond high school at a [...]

The PROTEC17 State team will head back to the bargaining table on April 23 to begin negotiations for the 2027-2029 Collective Bargaining Agreement.  In preparation, PROTEC17 State members gathered in [...]

For the first time in chapter history, PROTEC17 City of Portland members have formed a Contract Action Team (CAT) to support the bargaining team as they negotiate the next [...]

For years, Public Health in Washington State has been chronically underfunded due to its reliance on precarious funding sources tied to our state’s upside down tax code. In the [...]

After almost 10 months of difficult negotiations, the Airport Duty Managers (ADMs) at the Port of Seattle ratified an agreement on their 2025-2028 contract in February, and the Port Commission [...]

In what was a challenging fiscal and policy environment in both the Washington and Oregon legislative sessions, PROTEC17 was able to successfully advance many items on our political policy agenda [...]

PROTEC17 members at Pierce County have overwhelmingly ratified a new 2026-2028 collective bargaining agreement following months of negotiations with the County. The strong ratification vote reflects broad support among members [...]