Union News

1. Firefighters arrested | Clinicians unionize | Deadly heat

   Thursday, August 28, 2025   STRIKES ► From the union-busting Columbian — Striking classified employees flood Evergreen school board meeting advocating for higher wages — Classified staff wearing blue and teachers in red filled every seat in the boardroom at the district headquarters in east Vancouver with the crowd overflowing into the hallway…Mindy Troffer-Cooper, president […]

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2. Shuler: “Working people are going to save ourselves”

   AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler delivered her State of the Unions address, highlighting labor’s fight against a government by and for billionaires WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 28, 2025) — In her third annual address broadcast Monday, Liz Shuler, president of the AFL-CIO — which represents 63 unions and nearly 15 million working people, including more than 650,000 […]

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3. SW Washington ‘Workers over Billionaires’ Labor Day Rally

   Hosted by the Clark College Association for Higher Education, featuring speakers like the striking Evergreen PSE chapter’s president VANCOUVER, WA (August 28, 2025) — Labor family in Southwest Washington are hosting a solidarity rally on Labor Day, in support of education workers on strike in the Evergreen School District and to celebrate a year of […]

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4. Take a STAND

   Your one-stop-shop for taking a stand against attacks on workers This page is regularly updated. Planning or attending an action you don’t see listed? Send it to The STAND’s Editor at stucker@wslc.org LABOR DAY ► Public Sector Workers Rise Up | Washington State Capitol’s Tivoli Fountain (103 Capitol Way S, Olympia, WA 98501) from 11:00 AM to 1:00 […]

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5. If not for the union | 10% of federal workforce | Yosemite union

   Wednesday, August 27, 2025   TODAY’S MUST-READ ► From the Seattle Medium — If Not for the Union, There Go I — I keep coming back to this truth: if not for the union, there go I. Without unions, I don’t know where my family would be. The union difference has meant dignity on the […]

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6. 500-plus workers join WFSE in two weeks

   Membership drive sees hundreds of public service workers join the Washington Federation of State Employees  OLYMPIA, WA (August 27, 2025) — One of the largest unions in Washington, the Washington Federation of State Employees/AFSCME Council 28 (WFSE) is celebrating a successful organizing blitz, gaining more than 500 new members this past month. Over the course […]

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