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New Faces on Seattle Picket Lines
Adrianna Haley of the Ballard DSHS office. |
Adrianna Haley and about two dozen other members of Local 843 of the Washington Federation of State Employees at the Ballard Department of Social and Health Services staged a one-day walkout last week to protest failure of the legislature to grant a wage increase. The job action was part of a series of rolling strikes spreading across the state.
Northwest Hospital nurses demonstrated in Westlake Park on May 4. |
Several thousand Washington State nurses, including a group from Northwest Hospital, gathered on May 4 in Westlake Park to rally for "Quality Care, Safe Hours and Safe Staffing." Fifty-six percent of Washington State nurses say they don't have enough time to provide necessary training and education for their patients, according to a survey commissioned by the Service Employees Union (SEIU). Thirty-eight percent of nurses reported that patient medications are missed or delayed at least once a week.
University of Washington grad student union members Evren Damar (left) and Melissa Gjellstad. |
A strike is in the works for University of Washington just before finals, unless University officials agree to grad student employees demands for an enforceable union contract. The University agreed to negotiate with the union, Graduate Student Employee Action Coalition/United Auto Workers (GSEAC/UAW) last fall. But no progress has been made on key union demands including "a contract that is fully enforceable by a neutral third party," according to Evren Damar, an Economics teaching assistant and bargaining team member. Last week GSEAC members voted 1061 to 100, a 91 percent majority, to authorize a strike.
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