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We hope that you have received your first-ever PROTEC17 membership card in the mail, and you've already downloaded your digital card!  Your physical membership card will come as part of [...]

In 2025, newly organized PROTEC17 members faced challenges head-on and made it known that we are a force to be reckoned with! In many of our external organizing campaigns, [...]

The 2026 Washington state legislative session began on January 12. While it’s a short, 60-day session, we’ve got an action-packed agenda based on several priorities that will help improve [...]

Last fall, PROTEC17 began a process to create a new Strategic Plan for 2026-2028 that will guide us over the next three years. As part of that process, thousands of [...]

On Sat., Oct. 19, the PROTEC17 Regional Executive Committee (REC) — our union’s policy-making body — convened in-person at the Museum of Flight in Tukwila to conduct the business of [...]

As one of the newest Chapters in our union, the Sound Transit membership continues to grow! Fare Ambassadors are the newest group at Sound Transit to be certified as a [...]

The PROTEC17 scholarship program has awarded over $75,000 in scholarships in the last 14 years to members’ dependents to help in their pursuit of a higher education. We are proud [...]

Given the tenuous budget situation that the City of Portland was facing this year, PROTEC17 closely tracked the state transportation funding package that would provide increasingly necessary funding for our [...]

Nominations for Chapter leadership positions are now open! If you'd like to nominate yourself or another member (with their permission!) for a leadership role, please email your nomination to [...]

In June, PROTEC17 King County members, along with members from over 20 other unions in the King County Coalition of Unions, reached a tentative agreement on their Coalition Labor Agreement [...]

PROTEC17 reached a settlement agreement with the City of Seattle in September related to a grievance around mandatory in-person office requirements. The agreement permits employees to work four hours in [...]

Thousands of union members and community allies across the Pacific Northwest and around the country came together over the Labor Day weekend to celebrate worker power and to rally against [...]

If you’ve attended a PROTEC17 Chapter meeting, Regional Executive Committee meeting, rally, or event in the Seattle or King County area, you’ve likely run into Rocco DeVito and Jamie [...]

In February, the PROTEC17 bargaining team, alongside the King County Coalition of Unions, began negotiations with King County management on the next Coalition Labor Agreement (CLA), and in early June [...]