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The ofcial newspaper of the

WASHINGTON FEDERATION OF STATE

EMPLOYEES/AFSCME Council 28AFL-CIO

VOL. 42 NO. 5

JUNE 2014

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OUTSOURCING WATCH:Be the eyes and ears to detect bad contracting. Page 8

SHOP STEWARD CORNER

Our contracts matter! What Inslee said. 3 Facts, gures, faces

and voices. 4-5.

Training, videos, narratives highlight

2014 Shop Steward Conference, Sept. 6-7

Yes, back by popular demand.

Submit short videos (2 minutes max) of your shop steward actions, meetings,education or meetings.Your digital short could end up being used in a video compilation on WFSE.

org or at the Steward Conference in September.Be creative. Have fun.DEADLINE:July 31.

TO SUBMIT YOUR VIDEO:

Go to http://www.youtube.com. Sign-in using the login [email protected] and password StewardC28. Select UPLOAD. Use Select les (from your computer/device) to upload. Give your video a name and description. LOG OUT. View your uploaded video here:

https://www.youtube.com/user/WFSEc28ShopStewards/videosNEED HELP? Contact Laura Reisdorph at [email protected].

Bettina Suttle(right), is just one ofWFSE/AFSCMEs amazing shop

stewards. Suttle, a security guard 2

at the Special Commitment Center

on McNeil Island, received the Local

793 Steward of the Year Award

May 31 at the locals banquet.

Longtime activist James Sprague

presented the award.

This years WFSE/AFSCME Shop Steward Conference willbe Sept. 6-7 at the Seatac Doubletree Hotel. Here are four thingsto keep in mind as the conference approaches:

1The WFSE/AFSCME Shop Steward Committee is

currently working on the agenda and curriculum. Onlineregistration will open in late June. The deadline for reg-istration, housing and travel requests will be Aug. 13.WFSE/AFSCME picks up meals and Saturday night lodg-ing; other lodging or meal requirements are a personalexpense or at the expense of the attendees local. Therst 250 stewards who register get into the conference.When registration opens in late June, you can nd it on-line at: http://www.wfse.org/steward-center/shop-steward-conference-2014/

WATCH FOR REGISTRATION INFORMATION

2 VIDEO SHORTS RETURN!

3 TELL US YOUR STORYEvery steward has a narrative. The WFSE/AFSCME

Shop Steward Committee wants to hear them. If youre

a steward, please submit a short story or essay about asuccess you have had. DEADLINE:July 31.

Online form: http://www.wfse.org/shop-steward-essay-contest/

4 LAURIE MERTA SHOP STEWARD OF THEYEAR AWARD

These awards are so important were repeating the

nomination form on page 6.DEADLINE: July 31.You can also download form online at:http://www.wfse.org/shop-steward-of-year-nominations-

due-july-31/.

EchoGlen

Ecology Northwest Regional Ofce members in Bellevue, where the ItsCOLA Time slogan (and craze) all began. It and Wear Green Days in sup-port of a strong contract have swept this state.

Bargaining updates online:

wfse.org >

COLLECTIVE BARGAINING


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Health

carematters

UNION NEWS

SHARED LEAVE

REQUESTSIf youve been approved toreceive shared leave by youragency or institution, you can

place a notice here and on-

line. Please include a contactin your agency, usually in hu-

man resources, for donors tocall. E-mail the editor at [email protected]. Or call 1-800-562-6002.

Mike Phelps,a mental healthtechnician 3 at Eastern StateHospital in Medical Lake and

a member of Local 782, is inneed of shared leave as herecovers from a heart attack.Its notable that Mike is alivetoday thanks to the actions

of a patient, who alerted staffwhen Mike collapsed in theparking lot, and about 23 staff

who responded and workedon Mike for 20 minutes untilparamedics arrived. Ouramazing staff saved him,

said colleague Setira Dawson.Contact: Laura Farley, (509)

565-4680.

Kim Vogel, an attendantcounselor 2 for DSHS StateOperated Living Alternatives(SOLA) in King County anda member of Local 341, hasbeen approved for sharedleave to recover from an auto-mobile accident. Contact: LisaBonorden, (206) 366-6716 [email protected].

Heather Y. Pens,an atten-dant counselor 2 for DSHSState Operated Living Alterna-tives (SOLA) in King County

and a member of Local 341,has been approved for shared

leave to recover from surgery.Contact: Lisa Bonorden, (206)366-6716 or [email protected].

Kim Dye-Wilkes,an ofceassistant 2 at the Departmentof Labor and Industries inTumwater and a member ofLocal 443, has been approved

for shared leave while shehandles a family emergency.

Contact: Leah Whitehall,(360) 902-5488.

Leann Key,a scal analystat the Special CommitmentCenter on McNeil Island(CIBS Finance Team) and amember of Local 53, is assist-ing her mother while she goesthrough cancer treatment.Contact: Patty Huffman, (253)756-2973.

Coralee Pearsall,a custo-dian 1 at Central WashingtonUniversity and a member ofLocal 330, has been approved

for shared leave for surgery.Contact the CWU HumanResources Ofce, (509) 963-1202.

Mark Reyes,an ofce assis-tant 3 with the Department ofCorrections in Longview anda member of Local 1400, isrecovering from an illness andis in need of shared leave.Contact: Diana White, (360)

407-5704 or [email protected].

Nancy Kaupp,an unemploy-ment insurance specialist 3with the Employment SecurityDepartment in Lacey and amember of Local 443, hasbeen unable to work sinceMarch because of extendedrecovery from back surgery.Contact: Kathleen Young,360) 725-9416.

Trina Ray,a mental health

technician 1 at Eastern StateHospital in Medical Lake anda member of Local 782, isin desperate need of shared

leave. She is on her thirdround of chemotherapy as

she battles breast cancer. Sheis nearly out of leave time.Contact: Laura Farley, (509)565-4680.

Teresa McMechan,a li-censed practical nurse on theB Pod geriatric ward at East-ern State Hospital in MedicalLake and a member of Local

782, has been out of workbecause of an extended ill-

ness. She is in need of sharedleave. Contact: Laura Farley,(509) 565-4680.

Shawnte Papac,a scal ana-lyst 1 with DSHS in Lacey anda member of Local 443, hasbeen out of work since Marchdue to extended illness andis in need of shared leave.Contact: Jeanette Lyles, (360)902-0254.

Grace Hamilton,a man-agement analyst 1 with theDepartment of Licensing inOlympia and a member of Lo-

cal 443, is in need of sharedleave while recovering from

serious medical conditionsbrought on by a complicatedpregnancy. Contact: LonnieSpikes, (360) 664-1394 or E-mail [email protected].

J.E. Thomas, a retired Local 793 member whoworked at Western State Hospital, died May 22.He was 66. He retired as a psychiatric security

attendant in November 2012 after working at thehospital for 30 years. He is survived by his wife,Sylvia Graham, and ve children. He was lovedby all his co-workers, family and patients, saidhis wife, who still works at the hospital. Every

day they asked how he was doing in retirement.They loved him, he was a well loved man. Aviewing took place May 29. His nal restingplace will be back home in Texas.

IN MEMORIAM

SAFETY

CORNER

Have you been asked to perform duties outside your classication?

If so, were you given a job task list?Does the task involve possible dangers such as biological, environmental,chemical, or physically demanding hazards?

Have you been given proper training in performing these tasks?Do you have the proper equipment to perform the task?Does the task require PPE (personal protective equipment)?

Have you been given PPE?Have you been given training on how to properly use the PPE?Have you been asked to unclog a toilet?

Have you been asked to perform electrical work?Have you been asked to shovel snow?

These are all questions you need to ask yourself when you have been given adirective to perform a task that is outside your normal job classication duties.

If you have a question or a possible topic for Safety Corner, contact the WFSE/AFSCME Health and Safety Committee: [email protected].

DANGEROUS

DIRECTIVES?

The state has deniedWFSE/AFSCMEs chal-lenge of the new tobaccoand spousal insurance sur-charges.

The next step will likelybe mediation by the Pub-lic Employment Relations

Commission (PERC).The union had pushed

to bypass mediation andgo straight to arbitration bya neutral referee from theAmerican Arbitration Asso-ciation.

The state Labor Relations

Health insurance surcharges

headed to PERC mediation?

Sectiondenied theunions

grievanceMay 27,saying thesurchargeswere notpart of thehealth pre-mium andthat the

grievance was untimely.

REYES VISITS.As a sign of how much WFSE/AFSCME members are re-spected, the No. 2 ofcer of AFSCME, Secretary-Treasurer Laura Reyes,

made her rst visit to the Federation to praise members innovation and

dedication to publ ic service. Together, collectively, we are strong, Reyes

told Policy Committee delegates May 17 in Seatac.

Local 443 donates $10,000 to Bowerman FundOlympia Local 443 May 20 con-

tributed $10,000 to the BowermanFamily Fund at the Foundation forWorking Families. The Bowermanfund was set up in the wake of the

death in the Oso landslide of sixmembers belonging to the family ofSpokane Local 1221s Darron Bower-man. A generous contribution in theface of an unimaginable loss.


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WFSE/AFSCME Washington State EmployeeJune 2014 Page 3

SPECIAL REPORT: Spotlight turns to COLAs

Its just clear to me that its unacceptablethat state employees have gone so longwithout a general pay increase.

Gov. Jay Insleetook a lot of akwhen he told

WFSE/AFSCMEPolicy Committeedelegates May 17 itwas unacceptablestate employeeshad gone so longwithout a pay raise.

But it was atleast the third timehe publicly sharedthat sentiment:

Dec. 17, 2013(SupplementalBudget rollout pressconference):

State employees havealso gone withoutCOLA (cost of livingincreases) increasessince 2008. That is justtoo long to wait. So inthe next biennium, wefully intend to addressthose issues.

Jan. 15,2014(followupe-mail afterhis Jan. 14State ofthe StateAddress):

I want you to know that I fullyrecognize the sacrices stateemployees have made duringthe past ve years. This is veryimportant to me. State employeeshave not received a cost-of-livingincrease since 2008 and we mustdo everything possible to addressthis issue in the next budget.

May 17, 2014(WFSE/AFSCMEPolicyCommittees)

COLA supportnothing new

What the governor said on COLAs -- in context

Gov. Jay Inslee Inslee shakes hand of Local 443 member Imelda Ang at end of his speech to WFSE/AFSCME Policy

Committee delegates in Seatac May 17.

Theres been a lot of mis-reporting (by reporters and

pundits who werent there)of what Gov. Jay Inslee toldWFSE/AFSCME Policy Com-mittee delegates May 17 abouthis support for cost-of-livingadjustments (COLAs)

The governor spoke ona number of topics, includ-ing praising WFSE/AFSCMEmembers for their help in theOso landslide relief effort,involvement in (and construc-tive criticism of) his ResultsWashington good governmentinitiative, the partnership the

union has in the EmploymentSecurity employee engage-ment movement and involve-ment in efforts to controlhealth care costs and get theword out about wellness.

But coming just threedays before the start of nego-tiations at several of WFSE/AFSCMEs bargaining tables,the governors remarks aboutpay raises took on greaterimpact even though it wasat least the third time he hadpublicly called for COLAs forstate employees (see top ofpage).

The governor temperedhis remarks with the warningthat 2015 will be a more brutalbudget year than 2013 whena legislative budget logjamcame within 24 hours of shut-ting the state down.

What the governor said:

Here is what Inslee said, ver-

ied by the iPhone voice memorecording made by this newspa-pers editor a standard practiceto ensure accuracy in reportingsuch public pronouncements.

Inslee repeatsalarm at no payraises in recentyears. But hisremarks were farfrom a conces-sion

Now, were just in thebeginning of our negotiatingprocess, so I hope you under-

stand I cant go into detail, thenumbers, or anything like thatstanding here.

He then joked that perhapsstate employees should have asgood a contract as those given tothe worlds best football team andplayers like the Seahawks Rich-ard Sherman. Then he said:

But I do want to saythis: Its just clear to me thatits unacceptable that stateemployees have gone so longwithout a general pay in-

crease.

After delegates gave him astanding ovation, the governortold the delegatesdetails aregoing to wait for our bargain-ing together and getting moreinformation on our scal con-dition.

Its important that youunderstand that. And itsimportant to have highlymotivated people to really dogreat services to our citizens.

Inslee said the solution to

the scal crisis is revenue, in-cluding closing tax loopholes.

He said the Senate MajorityCoalitions approach to funding

court mandated education im-provements was wrong.

Cutting services -- housing,nutrition, for seniors and dis-abled citizens -- I think is thewrong approach, Inslee said.

The governor said it was thewrong approachjust from asense of humanity of not for-getting the least amongst us.

Cutting services to fundeducation is counterintuitive, hesaid.

Its darn near impossible

to educate a homeless, hun-gry, sick child. So we are notgoing to solve this problemby creating more hungry, sickkids in our state.

We are going to recog-nize the cold hard fact that thestate of Washington is goingto have to nd a way to gen-erate additional revenues tosolve this problem.

CONCLUSION: Inslee didntgive away the store or makepremature concessions on payraises -- and WFSE/AFSCMEdelegates knew that becausetheyve been through this before.Union members at the table andall around the state will pushfor a certain level of COLAs andmanagement inevitably will pushback. While the governor re-peated his desire to give a COLA,Inslee didnt hesitate givingWFSE/AFSCME members a colddose of reality on the continuingscal challenges in the face of theSupreme Court-mandated educa-

tion funding. In the end, good in-tentions about COLAs and edu-cation and public services wontbe enough unless the states rev-enue problem is resolved.

Gov. Jay Inslee took time

before his May 17 speech to

Policy Committee delegates

to pose for this photo with

Employment Security member

Ginger Bernethy(Local 443).

The day before, hed honored

Bernethy with an Extra Mileaward tied to Public Service

Recognition Week.

Inslee praised Bernethy as a

pioneer in creating a genuine

relationship and being the

driving force behind the

success of the employee

engagement initiative at ESD.

The Extra Mile awards went to

several state employees who

exemplify what it means to be

public servants.

Employment Securitymember honored withExtra Mile Award


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WFSE/AFSCME Washington State EmployeePage 4 June 2014

VOICES FOR A STRONG CONTRACT & THE FACTS

Sub-infationary pay means lower quality services:

high turnover, high caseloads, not employer of choice.

2%

1%

0%

-1%

-2%

-3%

-4%

1996

1997

1998

1999

2000

2001

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

2008

2009

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

-3.3%

-2.7%3

-3.0%

-0.4%

-3.5%

+0.1%

0% 0%

-3.6%

-2.0%

-1.6%

+2.0%

-1.2%

-0.5%2

-1.9%

-4.2%

-0.6%

Difference (+/-) between state employee pay raises andcost-of-living index (previous calendar years increase in

Seattle CPI [1996-2014])1Source: Economic and Revenue Forecast Council 2/14; U.S. Labor Department Bureau of Labor Statistics;

biennial operating/supplemental budgets, 1995-2015; WFSE General Government Master Contracts, 2005-2015.

These sacrices -- coupled with increas-ing population, higher demand for services,staff cuts -- have led to high turnover, highercaseloads and the state not fullling its Goal5 objective to be an employer of choice.

In 15 of the past 19 years, stateemployee pay raises have laggedbehind the Seattle Consumer PriceIndex (CPI). While the cost of livingincreased 49.8%, state employeeCOLAs increased 19.7%.

In the current biennium (2013-2015), General Government stateemployees have received no CO-LAs, while ination has increased3.7%.

-2.5%

-1.2%

NOTES:1. Does not include other special adjustments such as the $756 lump-sum payment (7/1/06), extra 2.5% for those qualifying for any new top step, salary surveyadjustments for those more than 25% behind prevailing rates; does include continuation of 7/1/06 temporary COLA of 1.6%.2. Does not include permanent inclusion of 1.6% from 7/1/06. If that were factored in, the raise would be 4.8% and that would have put state employees 0.9%above the Seattle CPI.3. Does not include the carryover of the 3% pay cut into the second year of the biennium. If that were factored in, the raise would have been -3% and that wouldhave put state employees 5.7% behind the Seattle CPI.NOTE: The CPI number is the previous years Seattle CPI, the standard used for voter-approved teacher salary measure I-732.

ITS ABOUT QUALITY.

Our hope is that wecome out with a strongercontract than before....Itll benet the public be-cause we want to retainand keep qualied andskilled employees.

Patricia Loving, DSHSVancouver (Local 313)

ITS ABOUT BEING

AN EMPLOYER OFCHOICE.We need to get Wash-ington state to being anemployer of choice, anemployer that peoplewant to work for.

Kate Rogers,DOTGreenbank (Local 1060)

ITS ABOUT

WORKLOAD."We have an obligationto complete the programneeds and we cant dothat if we dont haveenough staff and if theworkload is too high.

Reidun MacGregor, DSHSTacoma (Local 53)

ITS ABOUTPROTECTINGAGAINST BULLYING.I think that our gover-nor and the public want(state workplaces free ofbullying), too. They wantto work in a place that issafe. And if its safe forus, by having a strongcontract, it will trickle outand be safe in all work-places.

Michalena Fontana,DOHOlympia (Local 443)

ITS ABOUT GIVINGUS THE TOOLS TO DOTHE JOB TAXPAYERSEXPECT.The public in Washing-ton state -- and Ive livedhere all my life -- wantsits state government tobe as good as any....The minute you walk outthe door, youre gettingstate services....Theresno reason we cant haveall these things in thestate of Washington andI think that Washingto-nians expect it.

Michael Weisman,DOHOlympia (Local 443)

A CLOSER LOOKA regular series on how members are going beyond the bargaining table toadvocate for strong contracts. This month, General Government membersat Wear Green Days, at a rally in support of lower caseloads for ChildrensServices workers in Tacoma and at bargaining give their opinions on whats atstake in this summers contract negotiations.

Above the gray line: Raises exceeded ination in just two years since 1996.(% = how much raises topped the Seattle CPI)

Below the gray line: Raises were below ination in 15years since 1996.

(% = how much raises fell below the Seattle CPI)

On the gray line: Raises matched ination in two of the past 19 years (0% difference in 2000 and 2001).

No raises in 1996, 1998, 2002-2004, 2009-2010,

2013-2014, with 3% pay cut in 2011-2012.


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VOICES FOR A STRONG CONTRACT & THE FACTS

Sources: http://hab.hrsa.gov/stateprofiles/2009/states/wa/State-Population-Data.htm#sources

http://www.ofm.wa.gov/trends/budget/fig401.asp

6400000

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6700000

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6900000

7000000

2009 2010 2011 2012

Washington Popula8on

2009 - 2012

102000

104000

106000

108000

110000

112000

114000

2009 2010 2011 2012

Series 1

Number of State

Workers

2009-2012

Washington state workers:

Doing more with less

As population -- and demand for public servic-es -- climbs, the safety net of state workers hasdeclined. Higher workloads, a public ill-served.

ITS ABOUT RETAIN-ING GOOD EMPLOY-EES.I think what we needto do to x this (highChildrens workers case-loads) is to really ap-preciate the employeesand the workers that wehave and do somethingto retain employees.Were having peopleleave so rapidly and nothave a desire to makethis a career that work-load issues are just outof control and skyrocket-ing.

Joanne Ashcraft,DSHS Childrens

Tacoma (Local 53)

ITS ABOUT ADDRESS-ING BURNOUT.I would like to see a payincrease, but I would liketo see a managementthat supports the staff....We dont have enoughworkers that are stickingaround to help becausethis work takes a tollon you emotionally andphysically. And if yourenot able to take care ofyourself, you cant takecare of your clients.

Moriah Faimalie,DSHS Childrens

Tacoma (Local 53)

ITS ABOUTACHIEVING GOAL 5ON RESULTSWASHINGTON.Gov. Inslee has comeup with the Goal 5 andits to make the employ-ees more productive,and to make them moreproductive, they needto be more secure byhaving fair wages, mak-ing sure their medicalis taken care of and theretirement.

Ken Blair, DSHSTacoma (Local 53)

by Olivia SandbotheAFSCME Blog

A wave of green is spreading across Washington state asmembers of the Washington Federation of State Employees(AFSCME Council 28) head to the bargaining table in Olympia.State employees are wearing green shirts to show support fortheir bargaining team while it ghts for a fair contract.

Crowds of WFSE members assembled outside thebargaining site June 4 calling for a long-overdue cost-of-living

adjustment. Around 30,000 state employees are counting onthe adjustment after years of stagnant wages.

Our voice is actually part of the bargaining process. Ifmanagement and the legislature know that we have thousandsof people out here saying that we deserve a raiseits been sixyears, and were making less now than we did in 2009andall of us are saying it together, in one voice, it really impactsthe way we get things in our contract, says Sue Henricksen,president of AFSCME Council 28.

The mood is hopeful in the state capital. During WearGreen Day, state employees enjoyed a cookout and sang tothe tune of YMCA that everybody needs a COLA! Theirpositive attitude is paying off. The bargaining team hasalready reached 22 tentative agreements.

But theres still work to be done. WFSE members were towear green again on June 24 as the union headed back to the

table for another round of General Government negotiations.

WFSE members go green in solidarity

Local 843 members at the King Street DSHS ofce in Seattle wear green.

Bargaining updates online:

wfse.org >

COLLECTIVE BARGAINING

UW rally, Childrens andmuch more in the next issueand online: http://www.wfse.

org/wse-62014/


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WORTH REPEATING


SHOP STEWARD CORNER

ELIGIBILITY:

Locals and in-dividual membersmay nominate shopstewards who havedemonstrated out-standing skills tohelp their membersand to build up the union at the grass-roots level.

NOMINATION:

Submit written nomination (you may use theprinted nomination form at right) with the informa-tion listed on the nomination form printed at right.

Send completed nomination forms to: WFSE/AFSCME Award Committee, 1212 Jefferson StreetS.E., Suite 300, Olympia, WA 98501.

You can also submit nominations online athttp://www.wfse.org/shop-steward-of-year-nomi-nations-due-july-31/.

Nominations must be received by July 31, 2014.All written nominations must include a state-

ment of the required facts as listed on the nominationform at right.

REVIEW:A committee, appointed by the WFSE/AFSCME

president and approved by the Executive Board, willreview the nominations and select the recipients. Inthose instances where the nomination is from otherthan a local, local ofcers may be asked to provideadditional information. The committee may selectmultiple recipients.

If this form is not completed in its entirety, thenomination may not be considered.

WFSE/AFSCME Laurie Merta Shop Steward of the Year Award 2014

STATEMENT OF FACTS

I, , nominatePerson submitting nomination Name of nominee

for Shop Steward of the Year Award.Nominees address:

Work phone: ( ) Home phone: ( )Local union number: How long a member:How long a Shop Steward:Agency:

Current job class:Union ofces held:

Description of why nominee should be considered for the award, such as: keeping the membersinformed about union issues; organizing in support of the contract; recruiting and mentoring

stewards; representing members; enforcing the contract; advocating for workers rights (attachadditional sheets if needed):

If this form is not completed in its entirety, the nomination may not be considered.

Date: Nominators name: Person submitting nomination

Shop Steward of Year nominations due July 31

Send completed nomination forms to: WFSE/AFSCME Award Committee,1212 Jefferson Street S.E., Suite 300, Olympia, WA 98501.

Nominations must be received by July 31, 2014.

Nominators best contact information: PHONE E-MAIL

AWARDS:

The award will be presented at WFSE/AFSC-

LAURIE MERTASHOP STEWARD OF YEAR

The award is named in honor of Laurie Merta, WFSE/AFSCMEs

eld services director who died in June 2012. Alice Rogers of

Local 1253 was the rst recipient of the renamed honor in 2013.

WFSE/AFSCME Howard Ocobock Memorial

FAMILY CAMPOUTSept. 12-14, 2014

Environmental Learning Center near Goldendale

at Brooks Memorial State Park

Hiking

Fishing on rivers

Stargazing

Street City State Zip( ) ( )

Home phone Cell Phone Home e-mail address

LOCAL#:

Deadline to register: Aug. 20, 2014This campout requires a minimum number of campers. In the event the minimum isnt reached, you will be refunded your money.

NAME

How many family members or guests will yoube bringing? ____________

What activities are you interested in?

Interpretive Center

Volleyball

Basketball

Please enclose $11 for each family member or guest youll be bringing. Make checks out to WFSE/AFSCME.

Mail this form to: WFSE/AFSCME Campouts, 1212 Jefferson St SE #300, Olympia WA 98501

Washington Federation of State Employees AFSCME Council 28 AFL-CIO www.wfse.org

opeiu8/acioSoftball

Check-in begins on Friday at 1pm.

Cabins have been reserved. WFSE/AFSCME will pay the $11 per night camp fee for mem-bers; members pay for any family or guests. Brooks Memorial has 7 cabins that sleep 10.With prior approval, tents and RVs may be allowed (NOTE: limit 3 RV electrical hook-ups).

Lodge and recreation hall with fully equipped kitchen available for meals. Bring yourown food for breakfast and lunch.

Saturday night BBQ with hotdogs, hamburgers, condiments and chips provided. Eachfamily should bring one main dish to serve eight, plus a salad or dessert.

What is not provided: sleeping bags or bedding materials; kitchen linens and dish-washing supplies; rewood; rst aid equipment; recreational equipment.

Activities: Nine miles of hiking trails; Large outdoor Briquette BBQ Campre ring; Fish-ing on the Little Klickitat River; Volleyball court, basketball court, and softball eld;

Goldendale Observatory offers special interpretive programs and stargazing (13 milessouth in Goldendale); and Maryhill Museum and Stonehenge replica (25 miles southoverlooking the Columbia River)

No

pets are permitted.

QUESTIONS? Contact Tavie Smith at 1-800-562-6002 [email protected]

Register online at WFSE.org > Member Resources > Family Campouts

Deadline to register:

Aug. 20, 2014

Brooks Memorial State Park is a 700-

acre, year-round camping park locatedbetween the barren hills of the southYakima Valley and the lodgepole pineforests of the Simcoe Mountains. Thepark provides a variety of natural envi-ronments for visitors to enjoy.

MEMBERS ONLY BENEFITS


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WORTH REPEATING

Application-Statement of Required Facts

ALTHEA LUTE MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP 20141. Applicants name:

2. Address: (Street) (City) (Zip) Home or cell phone: Home e-mail address:

3. Date of Birth: 4. School choice:

5. SUBMIT OFFICIAL TRANSCRIPT OF HIGH SCHOOL, VOCATIONAL SCHOOL OR COLLEGE RECORD. Your appli-cation will not be considered unless your transcripts are submitted.

6. Are you now the recipient of a scholarship or other nancial award? If Yes, list amount of the otheraward(s)

7. Are you working now? Hours per week:

8. Do you plan to work part-time?

9. Give pertinent information concerning your earnings or other nancial assets and obligations that would be helpful in as-sessing your nancial need. (Attach any additional data.)

10. Attach a written statement of Educational and Career Goals.11. Do you have credits earned toward degree requirements?

12. Provide a detailed description of any community service you have performed and length of time. Please include anyspecial awards or certicates you may have received:

13. WFSE/Council 28 AFSCME Members name:

Relation to Applicant: WFSE/Council 28 AFSCME Local Union Number

Date of Afliation with WFSE/Council 28 AFSCME:

Occupation: Spouse Occupation:

Net monthly income (combine members & spouses incomes if appropriate):

Number of Dependents: Ages:

In applying for the scholarship described on this form, I certify that all of the facts contained herein are correct.

Date: Signature of Applicant:

Return no later than July 31to: WFSE/Council 28 AFSCME Workforce Diversity Committee 1212 Jefferson Street S. E., Suite 300 Olympia, WA 98501

Althea LuteScholarshipinformation

This $5,000 scholarship is available.It allows eligible members or members oftheir families to pursue studies in a degreeprogram at a public college or university inWashington state.

Applicant must be a WFSE/AFSCMEmember (membership beginning at leasta year before application) OR an immedi-ate family member (including domesticpartners) of a WFSE/AFSCME member(membership beginning at least a yearbefore application).

The applicant must be a graduatingsenior, or a high school graduate (GED ac-cepted) from an accredited public, private

or parochial high school. Applicants must have a satisfactoryscholastic standing, be in need of nancialassistance and have participated in com-munity service.

An ofcial transcript of high schoolor vocational school or college must besubmitted to the committee.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION: Rules governing recipient award and

use of funds:(1) Recipient must provide evidence

of acceptance into a degree program at aPublic College or University in WashingtonState of his or her choice during the aca-demic year following the award.

(2) The $5,000 award will be heldin a sinking fund in a WFSE/Council 28

AFSCME account and drawn on by thestudent for registration fees, books andincidental direct costs to education. Anybalance at the end of the rst academicyear following the award will be availableto recipient on entering school the secondyear, conditional upon maintenance ofsatisfactory standing.

The WFSE/Council 28 AFSCMEWorkforce Diversity Committee will evalu-ate the applications and determine therecipient of the award no later than Augustof each year. The decision of the Commit-tee will be nal.

July 31, 2014, is the applicationdeadline.

All envelopes should be clearly marked To the WFSE/Council 28 AFSCME Workforce Diversity Committee.

Named in honor of the late Althea Lute, former WFSE/AFSCME staffer and Local 1488 ofcer and activist, who died in 2011.

Scholarship opportunity

A MEMBERS ONLY BENEFIT for WFSE/AFSCME members and their families!

Questions? [email protected] 253-405-4547

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OUTSOURCING WATCH


Recent low-quality outsourced

renovation work at Fircrest

School in Shoreline.

You can be

the eyes

and ears

When the University ofWashington outsourcedmaintenance work after

$280 million in renovations at HuskyStadium, members of the unions UWSkilled Trades Bargaining Unit blewthe whistle.

Had it not been for their alertness,the outsourcing that ignored their ex-pertise and took their work might havegone on out of sight, out of mind.

The unions unfair labor practicecomplaint over the outsourcing wasscheduled for a hearing this month.

The Husky Stadium incident

shows how Federation members canmake a difference as the eyes and earsto detect outsourcing.

Thats why the WFSE/AFSCMESkilled Labor and Trades Commit-tee has started a new project to detectoften-unseen outsourcing.

Its called Outsourcing Watch.When you detect outsourcing, use theform on this page or online and sendus the straight scoop. And take photosof outsourcing. Those real-time photoswill help in court and other venues.

We need Outsourcing Watchnow more than ever.

Were learning that management

more and more is outsourcing ourwork, explained Jeanine Livingston,the unions contract compliance man-ager.

Duringthe GreatRecession,cuts weremade,positionswere lost.But now,during therecovery,the bodyof workis grow-

ing alongwith it. Butpositionshavent nec-essarily fol-lowed. Butthe workfor the mostpart is still best done in-house and notoutsourced.

UW Local 1488 President PaulaLukaszek and her colleagues in theSkilled Trades Bargaining Unit werelocked out from maintenance workat the renovated Husky Stadium.Members detected outsourcing oftheir work, blew the whistle and withthe unions help have mounted achallenge that goes to hearing this

month.

ALSO: WFSE/AFSCME in 2014 initi-ated the Taxpayer Protection Act(2SHB2743) to increase cost-effectiveness,transparency and accountability inoutsourcing of state work. It gainednational attention when it passed theHouse and got a hearing in the ultra-business-friendly Senate.

utsourcing

Watch

A great resource for how important Out-

sourcing Watch is to bringing transparencyand accountability to selling public jobs to

private contractors is In the Public Interest.

www.inthepublicinterest.org/

utsourcing

Watch

WHOis doing your work?:

WHATwork exactly are they doing?:

WHENwas the work being done?:

WHEREexactly was the work being done?:

ANYTHING ELSE we should know (e.g. any building/remodel plans, e-mails, etc.)

Have you heard about plans to outsource all or part of your work?

Have you seen contractors doing work you or your co-workers usually do?

FACT:Under all our contracts, management is REQUIRED TO BARGAINTHE DECISIONto outsource your work.

FACT:The competitive contracting law REQUIRESmanagement to give em-ployees AT LEAST 90 daysadvance notice of deciding to contract so we canpresent alternatives or bid.

WE NEED TO HEAR FROM YOU!!!

You are your co-workers eyes and ears to catch outsourcingas it happens. When you see outsourcing, ll out this form (orgo online to www.wfse.org/outsourcing-watch/). Take photos!

When completed, send this form to: Outsourcing Watch, c/o Jeanine Livingston,1212 Jefferson St. S.E., Suite 300, Olympia, WA 98501. FAX: (360) 352-7608.QUESTIONS? Jeanine Livingston, 1-800-562-6002 [email protected]

Outsourcing Watchis a project of theWFSE/AFSCME Skilled Labor andTrades Committee.http://www.wfse.org/get-involved/skilled-labor-and-trades/

https://www.facebook.com/WFSE.Skilled.Labor.and.Trades

YOUR NAME:

PHONE or E-MAIL:

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