PROTEC17 welcomes our newest members from the King County Regional Homelessness Authority (KCRHA) to our union! The KCRHA is a new agency that coordinates services, funding, and policy for people [...]
As PROTEC17 members at the City of Portland prepared for negotiations of their 2022-2025 contract last year, they understood they’d be facing a very different set of challenges than previous [...]
After votes were tallied on June 27, the new Coalition Labor Agreement (CLA) was ratified by 12 of 14 PROTEC17 bargaining units at King County. While this was an extremely challenging negotiation, the [...]
Negotiations for the 2023-2025 contract with the State of Washington are underway! PROTEC17 bargaining team members are advocating for a fair cost-of-living adjustment (COLA), along with targeted increases for positions with demonstrated recruitment [...]
Nominations are now open for the following PROTEC17 Executive Board positions: President (currently held by Rachael Brooks) and Trustee #2 (currently held by Jennell Hicks). The terms are three (3) [...]
Hundreds of PROTEC17 members could be eligible for the student loan forgiveness program that was recently revamped and reintroduced by the Federal government. According to The Student Borrower Protection Center [...]
Kudos to the Clark County bargaining team for holding the line in what proved to be one of the most challenging bargaining cycles in decades. For many years, PROTEC17 has [...]
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 [...]