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WSDOT members celebrate opening of SR-99 tunnel
Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) Chief Inspector Amjad Omar is one of the few State employees who had the privilege of seeing the State Route 99 (SR-99) tunnel [...]
Seattle members answer questions about your utility bills
More than 2,000 calls come in to the City of Seattle everyday with questions about utilities and city services, and the 84 PROTEC17 members that staff the contact center [...]
Coldest, snowiest February on record kept King County members busy
The snowstorms in Western Washington this February were absolutely unprecedented. For nearly two weeks, the Puget Sound region was slammed with storm after storm, breaking temperature and accumulation records. [...]
Seattle Silence Breakers use their collective voice to stop harassment and discrimination
Seattle Silence Breakers are led by PROTEC17 member and City Light employee Denise Krownbell (right) and Radical Women organizer Gina Petry (left). The national attention garnered by [...]
Life After Work: Engineering by day, roller derby by night
Kaitlynn Pecha, PROTEC17 member, WSDOT Transportation Engineer, and skater for Rat City Roller Derby. Photo by Mike Wilson Photography. Transportation Engineer Kaitlynn Pecha spends her days making [...]
PROTEC17 members in Filipino group celebrate culture and community
The Filipino American Civil Employees of Seattle (FACES) is about to celebrate 30 years of giving a voice to Filipino and Filipino-American workers at the City of Seattle, as [...]
PROTEC17 introduces new Professional Development Fund!
In addition to the everyday benefits of union membership (a strong contract, for instance!), PROTEC17 is working on expanding our member benefits program this year, including adding a new [...]
Portland member elected to PROTEC17 Board
After ballots for the Executive Board election were counted on Nov. 14, Sarah Spotts was pronounced a new PROTEC17 Trustee for a three-year term. An active union member in [...]
Q&A with our new Union Organizers
In October, PROTEC17 hired two new Union Organizers -- Melissa Mafua and Alisha Gregory-Davis -- who both come to us from SEIU 925 where they worked a combined 20 [...]
WSDOT members keep traffic moving
After years working as a video editor at one of the local news stations in the Pacific Northwest, Chad Ross was laid off. This was, in part, because the [...]
REC celebrates PROTEC17’s 100th anniversary!
Delegates of our Regional Executive Commitee (REC) gathered at the Teamsters Hall in Tukwila, Wash. on Sat., Oct. 20 for the annual fall meeting. This meeting was a special [...]