The PROTEC17 State negotiations team reached a Tentative Agreement (TA) with the State of Washington for the 2021-2023 state contract on Sept 24. After an electronic ballot vote, the TA [...]

While the presidential election is taking center stage, there are many important local races that will directly impact PROTEC17 members and our Pacific Northwest communities. As public sector employees, lawmakers in our cities, counties, and [...]

Since the inception of the scholarship program in 2011, PROTEC17 has awarded over $50,000 in scholarships to the children of members. After very careful deliberation, we are proud to announce [...]

Since March, when the coronavirus first upended everyone’s lives, working parents have had to learn how to juggle their jobs and kids more than ever before. From helping children log-in [...]

When wildfires raged throughout the Pacific Northwest this September, many PROTEC17 members were called into action as part of emergency response teams to help with the relief efforts. In Oregon, [...]

More than 70 new Customer Service Representatives (CSRs) have been hired by the Seattle Fire Department to help support services at COVID-19 testing sites throughout the city. While these jobs [...]

Your union, your colleagues, and your fellow members – over 9,000 public sector workers throughout Washington and Oregon – need your skills, experience, and enthusiasm to help our organization be [...]

There are still funds available in the 2020 PROTEC17 Professional Development Fund. The fund provides monetary support to encourage the ongoing education and professional development of our members.  Now in [...]

On Sept. 2, PROTEC17 members from across the Pacific Northwest joined a virtual meeting to talk about the creation of a union-wide group to share ideas and inspiration on how [...]

PROTEC17 hired it’s first Eastern Washington-based staff member, Suzie Saunders, who started in July. The Spokane resident and former PROTEC17 member is excited for her new role and has hit [...]

Nominations are now open for the following PROTEC17 Executive Board positions: Vice President (currently held by Sean Simmons) and Trustee #1 (currently held by Renee Thompson). The terms are three [...]

Over the last several months, the PROTEC17 constitution committee has continued their important work (virtually) to revise the governing document of our union. Started as a Regional Executive Committee (REC) [...]

As one of PROTEC17’s newest member groups, the Senior Civil Rights Analysts in the Office of Labor Standards (OLS) at the City of Seattle are tackling some of today’s most [...]

PROTEC17 member Renee Thompson was appointed to the Executive Board in early June to fill a vacancy left by Trustee Mary Davis.  Thompson is an Engineering Tech IV with the [...]

We are in the middle of a pandemic and the beginning of a deep recession. At the same time, streets across our country are erupting in the wake of George [...]

In response to concerns about public employee privacy and with the support of PROTEC17, the Washington State legislature passed House Bill (HB) 1888 in March, which protects certain public employee [...]

As some counties in Washington begin to slowly reopen following the state-mandated closures to keep the coronavirus from spreading, Eastern Washington has seen a spike in cases of COVID-19, the [...]

On May 20, the PROTEC17 State negotiating team held its first session on the 2021-2023 contract with management from the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT), Department of Licensing (DOL), [...]

When it became clear that COVID-19 was going to be a major threat to public health back in early March 2020, leaders in hard-hit King County knew that it would [...]

PROTEC17 is seeking an enthusiastic, creative, and energetic political action coordinator. The part-time, contract-based position will primarily coordinate the union’s member engagement around political endorsements and campaigns through the conclusion of [...]