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Our union is embarking on another strategic planning process to define our priorities for the next three years. This plan will help shape our union's direction and goals from 2023-2025. Every [...]
Our union is embarking on another strategic planning process to define our priorities for the next three years. This plan will help shape our union's direction and goals from 2023-2025. Every [...]
PROTEC17 continues to grow! In late September, we officially welcomed our newest members from Portland Street Response (PSR) to our union! Peer Support Specialists and Mental Health Crisis Responders voted [...]
On Sept. 13, PROTEC17 members and staff rallied at Starbucks headquarters in Seattle alongside Starbucks Workers United (SWU) and many other unions to call out the union busting that’s been [...]
PROTEC17 staff and members showed up on the picket lines to support the Seattle Education Association (SEA) at the beginning of September. SEA teachers were striking for safety, equity, fair [...]
PROTEC17 stands with the millions of women, girls, transgender and gender-non-conforming people, and all working people for reproductive healthcare, justice, and rights. Since 1918, PROTEC17 members have joined together to [...]
While many members worked on-site throughout the cornonavirus pandemic as essential workers in public health, transit, and more, a large percentage of PROTEC17 members have been working from home since [...]
At the City of Portland, two recent wins have made big progress towards more fair and equitable wages for PROTEC17 members, today and into the future. Last year, when Capital [...]
Congratulations to some of our newest members – King County Project and Program Managers in the Department of Community and Human Services (DCHS) – for successfully negotiating their first contract! [...]
Show your PROTEC17 pride with some of our latest merchandise! Our swag store is home to union-made and union-printed merchandise for our members, sold at-cost. All spring, we are offering a [...]
PROTEC17 stands in solidarity with the farm workers who harvest flowers in the Skagit Valley fields after their call for better pay and working conditions ahead of the famous spring [...]
PROTEC17’s policy-making body – the Regional Executive Committee (REC) – met virtually on February 26 for their twice-yearly gathering to discuss the business of our union. With the theme ‘Proud [...]
Show your PROTEC17 pride with some of our latest merchandise! Our swag store is home to union-made and union-printed merchandise for our members, sold at-cost. In the last month, we [...]
The short legislative sessions in both Oregon and Washington state are set to wrap up in early March, but even with the compressed timelines, PROTEC17 is tracking, supporting, and drafting [...]
PROTEC17 grew its membership again in 2021! With public approval of unions being at an all time high, this growth trend mirrors the national wave of workers coming together to [...]
In solidarity with workers around the country and throughout the Pacific Northwest, PROTEC17 members are starting off 2022 with a show of support for a wide range of unionization efforts [...]
On Feb. 8, Public Health employees from across Washington state – including many PROTEC17 members – gathered online for Public Health Legislative Education Day, held via Zoom for the second [...]
Building upon our efforts from last year supporting PROTEC17 members at the Washington State Department of Licensing (DOL), we co-wrote Washington State Senate Bill (SB) 5875 that would add DOL [...]
Contract negotiations for our members at the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT), the Department of Licensing (DOL), and the Washington State Patrol (WSP) will kick off in March with [...]
On 2020, the PROTEC17 Law Enforcement Task Force formed to engage in conversations around public safety and calls for change to law enforcement professions. In order to best serve the [...]