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Taking the mystery out of the 2013 legislative session. See pages 2-6.

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Weve taken a 3 percent cut and no costs of living... This is difficult. As a single parent, I find that basically means I have to work two jobs.

We have lost a lot of dynamic Community Corrections officers probation officers.... When is enough enough?

Carol Spencer-Coons, Local 304, Seattle CC

Billy Smith, Local 53, Corrections, Tacoma

We have done many, many things to save the state money (on interpreter services).... Now were working on making the system (perform even better).

The impact on the students I work with has been really hard. To lawmakers: Just quit beating up on me and dont treat us as scapegoats.

Health care grievance aired

$118 million swept away by state should be for benefits only, unions charge
The WFSE/AFSCME-led coalition of state employee unions on Jan. 8 argued its case to recoup millions in health benefits money the unions charge was transferred last year to pay other state expenses. It was the first hearing on the group grievance filed July 19. It took place before the Labor Relations Division of the Office of Financial Management in Olympia. The Federation and its coalition partners charge that the state transferred $118 million from the health fund to the states General Fund in the supplemental budget that went into effect July 1. That effectively reduced

Louise Morehead, Local 1671, Interpreters

Jerry Owens, Local 304, Shoreline CC

Ive given a lot.... And then just the stress of layoffs and wondering if Im going to be next on the list....(We need) full funding...for Washington State Parks.

Our clients have suffered in ways because the turnover (of staff) is so high.... Its very disruptive in their life.

Rick Oakley, Local 1466, State Parks

David Greenman, Local 341, Fircrest School (which cares for developmentally disabled citizens)

Health care matters

the states contractual obligation to contribute its full 85 percent share for health benefits, the grievance says. There was no similar reduction in the 15 percent share paid by employees.

The moneys put in for benefits you dont get to manipulate it for other purposes, Federation Executive Director Greg Devereux said after the meeting with the states representatives. In the end, the employer swept $118 million for things other than benefits. At press time, the state

had not responded yet. The grievance asks that affected employees be made whole, to specifically include but not limited to that the state pay each employee eligible for insurance their proportionate share of the $118 million subject to transfer, together with interest at the rate applicable to judgments. This was formally Step 1 of the grievance procedure in the Health Benefits Agreement covering all state bargaining unit employees. The procedure also allows (if needed) mediation (Step 2) and arbitration (Step 3).

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Split Legislature, new challenges

Funding contracts at top of the list for 2013 session

Federation Executive Director Greg Devereux says its time for legislators to recognize the sacrifices made by Federation members the past two years that saved the state. That means funding the newly negotiated contracts. We think its important to make sure our contracts are funded, Devereux said. That puts more money in everybodys pocket, makes communities stronger. The Federation will also seek legislation to address unintended consequences of the health benefits exchanges in this state required by the federal Affordable Care Act and to extend collective bargaining rights to Labor and Industries contract interpreters. And the union will seek legislation to shed light on the often out-of-sight, out-ofmind network of for-profit community care facilities funded with Medicaid dollars. Many, many operators are getting wealthy off of Medicaid and the money that goes to them from the state is not going to quality care for the clients they serve...We want quality in all of those facilities. See more of Devereuxs overview and promises and challenges in the upcoming session on this months Our View on the Federations YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=h6ORMi2c5NQ

WFSE/AFSCME member lobbyists wasted no time getting their message to lawmakers. This delegation was on hand for opening day of the 2013 legislative session Jan. 14 in Olympia.

Practice makes perfect at Lobby Training

Other hot issues

Among the hot issues WFSE/AFSCME will focus on in the 2013 legislative session: Fund all negotiated contracts. Adequate funding level for health care. Resist additional cuts to human services, public safety and Corrections, natural resources, Higher Education. Boost General Fund monies to save state parks. Ensure funding for highway maintenance. Increase revenue, including closing tax loopholes. Improve supplemental and agency-specific bargaining, including in Corrections. Reform the Public Safety Employees Retirement System (PSERS) to allow in other high-risk institutions job classes. Interest arbitration for Corrections and campus police. Health Benefit Exchange. Procurement reform, accountability measures for interpreters. Accountability for forprofit community care providers. Workload, tort reform and other Corrections issues. Improved training for Liquor Control Board members. Payroll deduction for commute trip reduction federal tax benefit.

More than a dozen members of Interpreters Local 1671 turned out for the Jan. 5 Lobby Training, one of the largest delegations to attend.

Rep. Paul Harris, R-17th Dist., greets Local 1253 Corrections member Shawn Bren at WFSE/AFSCME Lobby Training Jan. 5 in Seattle. Harris and several other House members took part in several real-time practice sessions to help members get their message across quickly when they visit legislators in Olympia or when lawmakers return home.

Closing tax loopholes only fair

As WFSE/AFSCME members wait for the state Supreme Courts ruling on whether the 2/3 requirement to close tax loopholes and raise revenue is unconstitutional, members still stress the inequity of our tax system to middle class families.

I would like to see the Legislature re-evaluate tax exemptions and loopholes on a merit basis saying what is our return on investment.... I think we need more oversight and accountability when it comes to the stuff that were giving away.

Michael Heavey, Local 443, Department of Licensing, Olympia

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Philosophical Coalition majority leader targets pensions for cuts

A so-called Philosophical Coalition of all 23 Republicans and two probusiness Democrats took formal control of the Senate on opening day Jan. 14. Their designated majority leader, Democratic Sen. Rodney Tom, will try to finish what they couldnt get done in a similar coup last year. Tom told The Olympian Jan. 13 cutting pensions is one of his highest priorities. He wants to bring in 401(k)-type plans to replace The Washington State Labor Council likened Tom to the Wizard of Oz. the current pension structure. And in the first budget hearing of the session, Federation Lobbyist Matt Zuvich urged legislators to adopt outgoing Gov. Chris Gregoires recommendations to end the 3 percent pay cut as negotiated in new contracts, and fund health care and pensions. We would hope that these things make it into your budget, too, and that we stop the hemorrhaging, Zuvich told the House Appropriations Committee Jan. 14.

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Taking the mystery out of the 2013 legislative session !

Your issues explained -- on 1 page

ALSO IN THIS SPECIAL PULL-OUT SECTION: Meet the legislators who need to hear from you. See 4&5. A bonus page of more helpful information to take the mystery out of the 2013 legislative session. See 6.

Weve boiled your issues down to make it easier to get your story and message across to legislators:
YOUR SACRIFICES SAVED THE STATE DURING THE GREAT RECESSION
Over the past four years, public employees have sacrificed more than $1.5 billion in pay and benefits to address budget shortfalls. Weve been placed on furlough, taken pay cuts, and agreed to pay a greater share of our health care costs. In addition, weve taken the brunt of budget cuts and agency consolidations through layoffs, job changes, and heavier workloads.
Name:

ITS TIME TO RESTORE -- BECAUSE DEMAND FOR QUALITY PUBLIC SERVICES CONTINUES TO RISE

The number of state workers has dropped sharply Address: while the demand for services has continued to rise.
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LEGISLATORS NEED TO RECOGNIZE THE SACRIFICES OF THE STATE EMPLOYEE PUBLIC SERVANTS WHOVE SAVED THE STATE

WAGES

State workers agreed to a 3% pay cut and furloughs. This was in addition to the 5% cuts taken by 1/3 of the workers in the middle on 2010 and no cost-of-living adjustments in 2008. Health premiums rose by 25% and out-ofpockets costs rose 100%, all while the state cut its share of contributions. Over the past 2 years, state employees have paid nearly 18% more for pensions, while the state has diverted $300 million in pension payments.

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HONOR THE SACRIFICES MADE BY PUBLIC SERVANTS things the Legislature can do to ensure there is no further erosion of benefits:

BENEFITS

FUND THE NEW CONTRACTS End the 3% pay cuts in General Government and Community Colleges. Dont block those contracts at 4-year higher education institutions with innovative compensation packages. HOLD THE LINE ON HEALTHCARE Let negotiation on the new health care agreement proceed with the new administration. Make adequate increases in overall state contribution to benefits, which was cut to $800/month last year. FIGHT AGAINST ATTACKS ON PUBLIC WORKERS The state needs a qualified, trained workforce to support the vital jobs we perform for our communities. We cant keep cutting the vital programs and positions that Washington families depend on to stay strong.
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PROGRAM CUTS

Vital funding for programs has been reduced and entire programs have been eliminated. Since 2008, more than 10,000 employees have been cut. Workloads have skyrocketed, mandatory overtime has increased significantly, and several institutions have been closed (Pine Lodge, Ahtanum View, Maple Lane School, Frances Haddon Morgan Center). Child welfare privatization, elimination of early retirement factors (ERFs), Consolidated Technology Services collective bargaining rights eliminated, Workers Compensation weakened

ATTACKS ON WORKERS RIGHTS

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SAFEGUARDING DIGNITY FOR VULNERABLE CITIZENS
Brad Samples is a state worker who keeps disabled citizens safe, sound and productive members of society. I didnt get into this work to get rich. I got into it to make a difference. But I get angry when the selfish and privileged few attack honest, hardworking middle class state workers. We provide vital services. Yet the state protects big oil companies like BP with generous tax giveaways.1 Ive made tremendous sacrifices economically. Yet in recent years, the state could still afford to give away more than $3 billion when they created more than 150 new tax loopholes.2

Bonus page -- cool stuff to know

STANDING UP FOR ABUSED AND NEGLECTED CHILDREN
Joyce Murphy is a state worker who protects vulnerable children from abuse and neglect. She sees things most of us could never imagine. Weve sacrificed our fair share and taken on additional workload when the state cut 10,000 positions.3 I want to leave behind a better world for the at-risk children Ive dedicated my life to. But cuts to vital services and attacks on state workers have harmed the entire states middle class and cost the loss of 45,000 jobs in our economy.4

Your story counts. Here are examples from 5 of our Middle Class Heroes:

PROTECTING PUBLIC SAFETY

Judy Kuschel is a state worker who protects the public from domestic violence offenders and other dangerous offenders released from our prisons. Were the first line of defense keeping our communities safe for hard-working middle class families. Middle class state workers didnt cause the states economic crisis. Yet state workers like me have given up more than 10 percent of our pay to save the state.5 We need to pull together, not tear down middle class workers.

HELPING STUDENTS SUCCEED

Kelly Grayson is a state worker who helps college students get the services they need to succeed in school. Our pay has taken many hits over the last four years. A lot of people dont know that. Our health insurance costs and pensions costs have gone up while our pay has gone down.5 We provide vital services every day. Those vital services fuel economic growth.6

SACRIFICING FOR OUR FUTURE

Wendy Irish is a state worker providing services at one of our quality state colleges. Tuition for students our kids is going up 12 percent. State workers have taken a 3 percent cut in pay alone. Yet at our college, the president is getting a 12 percent pay hike and other administrators and managers are getting $3,000 in raises.7 The rest of us are falling behind. Eighty-two percent of state workers make less than market rate. So were not getting rich.8 Weve saved the state with our sacrifices.

The public needs to know we make a difference. Lets stop the attacks on middle class state workers.

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SOURCES: 1. Revenues to Rebuild Washingtons Economy: A Jobs and Economic Recovery Plan for Washington, Economic Opportunity Institute, October 2011; 2. Washington State Department of Revenue; 3. Shared Sacrifices of State Employees, Office of the Governor, November 2011; 4. Washington News Service, Nov. 21, 2011; 5. Shared Sacrifice: Overall Compensation for Average State Employee is Falling, OFM, March 2011; 6. Three years into recovery, just how much has state and local austerity hurt job growth? Economic Policy Institute, July 6, 2012, http://www.epi.org/blog/years-recovery-state-local-austerity-hurt/; 7. College pay always low for select few, Spokane Spokesman-Review, July 20, 2012; 8. 2010 Salary Survey Summary, Washington State Department of Personnel (now Washington State Human Resources), June 4, 2010, http://www.dop.wa.gov/CompClass/Compensation/Pages/TotalCompensationSurvey.aspx

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MEMBERS IN ACTION Local 304 stewards map action plans

Stewards are the backbone and front lines of this union. At WFSE/ AFSCME Local 304s Third Annual Shop Steward Conference, Dec. 8, at Seatac, about 25 Local 304 stewards attended to discuss a plan of action for their local a mix of higher education and general government members. They discussed bargaining priorities, legislative strategy, scheduling lobby days and improving local communications through use of the Local 304 website and e-mailing lists. They also discussed developing a Member Action Team structure and holding regular lunch n learns.

NEW LEADERS AT CWU LOCAL 330. Local 330 at Central Washington University in Ellensburg has elected its new Executive Board to meet the challenges on the job, at the bargaining table and for students. Local 330 officers and Executive Board (from left): Chris Stebbins (President); Laury Berner (E-Board); John Fukuzawa (E-Board); Chris Everett (E-Board); Skip Jensen (VP); Gini Letson (Secretary); and Pat Devlin (Treasurer).

AT KTSS: Dec. 20 Scrooge of the Year Award presentation from Jobs with Justice to KTSS CEO Mike Closser, in Bremerton. Kudos to John ONeill, a Local 1381 member at Whatcom Community College in Bellingham, who donated $20 to the fund to help workers fired for their union activities at Kitsap Tenant Support Services.

Locals or members who want to donate to the KTSS Fired Workers Fund, make checks out to the

Foundation for Working Families and send to: KTSS Workers Relief Fund, c/o WFSE Organizing Department,

1212 Jefferson St. S.E., Suite 300, Olympia, WA 98501 ATTN: Irene Smith.

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SHARED LEAVE REQUESTS

The following could use a donation of eligible unused annual leave or sick leave or all or part of your personal holiday:
Rhonda Corrick, a financial services specialist with DSHS in Wenatchee and a member of Local 1299, is caring for her son, Cary Corrick, who will be in Harborview Medical Center in Seattle for several months recovering from burns suffered during a propane explosion at his Peshastin home Jan. 4. Contact: your human resource office. Terri (Tee) Hall, a workers compensation adjudicator 3 at the Department of Labor and Industries in Tumwater and a member of Local 443, is still in need of shared leave as she recovers from injuries suffered after a recent fall. Contact: your human resource office. Danny Alderman, an attendant counselor 1 at Lakeland Village in Medical Lake and a member of Local 573, recently underwent emergency surgery and is in need of shared leave. He will need about eight weeks to recover. Contact: your human resource office. Angel Lynne, a truck driver 1 in Seattle with DSHS and a member of Local 843, has been approved for shared leave. She is caring for a family member who is recovering from complications brought on by cancer surgery. Angel has exhausted all her leave. Contact: Veronica Jones, (360) 664-5267, or

your human resource office. Roy Berry, a social service specialist 3 with DSHS in Mount Vernon and a member of Local 1060, is in need of shared leave to care for his daughter. Contact: your human resource office. Kari Jones, a social worker 3 with DSHS in Bellingham and a member of Local 1060, has been approved for shared leave. Contact: your human resource office. Benjohn Magcalas, a customer services specialist 2 with DSHS Home and Community Services in Seattle and a member of Local 843, has been approved for shared leave. Contact: your human resource office. Denise Roth, a social services specialist 3 with DSHS in Seattle and a member of Local 843, has been approved for shared leave. Contact: your human resource office. Sheryl Tiffany, a support enforcement officer 2 for DSHS in Tacoma and a member of Local 53, is in need of shared leave because of an ongoing medical condition and complications from it. Contact: your human resource office. Margaret Silva-Perry, a secretary senior with the Health Care Authority in Olympia, is recuperating from a serious illness and is in need of shared leave through March 11. Contact: Tracy Wynder, (360) 725-1027.

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Grievance victories for Employment Security members! Wenatchee ESD members clear the air in wildfire-related settlement
Wenatchee Employment Security members have settled a grievance that restores leave they were forced to take because of unhealthy, smoky conditions in their office building during last summers wildfires. WFSE/AFSCME Council Representative Jacqui Tucker credits new Local 1299 ESD Shop Steward Lori Brundage with making such a strong case at a grievance hearing that management agreed to a settlement. We won restored leave for the entire office, not just the grievants who signed on, Tucker said. We have a total of 14 members getting leave returned. The settlement also includes tax office members, she said. UPDATE ON EMPLOYMENT SECURITY MEMBERS LAYOFF RIGHTS: In November, we told you the story of Jacquie Thielen, the Employment Security Local 435 member in Seattle (pictured at right), who, with the help of WFSE/AFSCME Council Representative Addley Tole upheld her rights on recall from a layoff. Layoff rights are a big deal to ESD members whove faced reductions tied to budget cuts and the end of stimulus funding. rights. WFSE/AFSCME had filed a grievance after a member was laid off in December 2011. The agency failed to offer the member all layoff options. Specifically, the arbitrator ruled that ESD violated Article 34.9 of the General Government contract when the agency offered the member only one of three formal layoff options, instead of all three.

Tole (left) and Thielen.

Now, Employment Security members have won another key victory Dec. 19 when an arbitrator upheld their layoff

At the UW:
Well, there they go again at the University of Washington. Last month, we told you how the union overturned the firing of a UW member accused of stealing his own soda pop. Now comes the story of another UW custodian, who was fired for allegedly stealing an empty bottle of hand sanitizer. An allegation an arbitrator later determined was never actually made and certainly never proven. The UW accused Local 1488 member Anna Tsui of taking the empty bottle while out of her assigned work area in the UW Tower.

This time it was a member fired over an empty hand sanitizer bottle!
Tsui said she simply had been doing her assigned work down the stairs and stopped off at the tenth floor to ask a co-worker for pain medication for a headache. She was there for several minutes while her co-worker finished a task. She did find an empty bottle of hand sanitizer, but denied ever taking it from a vacant cubicle or box. And what did she do with the empty bottle? Tsui simply re-used it in the custodians lounge where she filled it with hand soap and placed in on a sink. But in October 2011, the UW fired Tsui. The union filed a grievance that ended up at arbitration. And on Dec. 12, an arbitrator overturned Tsuis termination, noting it is not clear just exactly what Ms. Tsui was discharged for. In the end, the arbitrator found no just cause for Tsuis termination, but reduced it to a two-week suspension tied to her being outside her assigned area. Shell be made whole for the rest of the time she was off the job. WFSE/AFSCME Council Representative James Dannen and Labor Advocate Banks Evans assisted her.

UW custodian Anna Tsui (center) with WFSE/AFSCME Labor Advocate Banks Evans (left) and Council Representative James Dannen (right).

KUDOS TO Local 782 at Eastern State Hospital in Medical Lake. Prompted by the fact that all too many Federation members use food banks in this economic era of pay cuts, the local made a big, $2,000 donation to Second Harvest to benefit local food banks in Medical Lake, Airway Heights, Cheney and Spokane. The remarkable thing: They made the donation Dec. 27 to expressly help when the general publics traditional holiday surge of donations starts to dry up. People are hungry year round, not just at Thanksgiving and Christmas, Local 782 leaders reasoned. The donation will feed 65 families at each of the four locations or 260 overall. Local 782 is challenging other Federation locals to make such worthy post-holidays donations. And let us know!

Diane Blowers-Kohout retires after 20 years with WFSE/AFSCME

RETIRED: After 20 years with WFSE/ AFSCME and eight years before that with the AFSCME Area Office, Diane Blowers-Kohout, journey organizer. She was a veteran of successful organizing drives at Washington State University, numerous state agencies where thousands of workers clamored for new collective bargaining rights, to interpreters and other public service sector workers. Blowers-Kohout retired Jan. 15 after co-workers celebrated her career at a reception at union headquarters in Olympia. The modest journey organizer always put members and their quest for fair treatment first. WFSE/AFSCME Organizing Director Megan Parke said Diane spent most of her organizing career out in the field, driving from home to home, day and night talking to workers about their right to organize, encouraging them to unite for power and dream about a better day. She has spent countless hours at kitchen tables listening to workers struggles and sorrows, inspiring them RETIRED: Veteran Emergency Management Division (Military Department) member Rob Harper retired in December. He was feted at a Dec. 20 celebration at Camp Murray. Hed been lead public information officer for Emergency Management since 1996. In that position, he was lead PIO for such disasters as the 2001 Nisqually

Diane Blowers-Kohout to believe in themselves, to not be afraid, to stand up for justice and personal dignity. She has touched thousands of Earthquake, the 2007 Lewis County floods, winter disasters in 2006 and 2008 and this past summers Taylor Bridge Wildfire. He was instrumental in the organizing drive that in May 2005 brought non-supervisory employees in EMD into the union. In 2010, he served on the General Government Bargaining Team for the 2011-2013 contract.

There were a lot of thumbs up in Diane Blowers-Kohouts 20 years as a WFSE/AFSCME organizer. The pace picked up in 2004 as thousands of state employees rushed to join the union to gain contract protections under the new collective bargaining law. She is pictured above in July 2004 after non-supervisory employees in the Department of Fish and Wildlifes Business Services Program and Public Affairs Office voted for the union. With her are DFW members Jennifer Quartano and Chuck Bolland. The journey organizer retired Jan. 15. lives and hearts in her union work. She has planted seeds of activism and hope in thousands of people throughout Washington.

CORRECTION
Because of a production error, this photo of retired KTSS caregiver Jack Hopkins did not appear in last months story on the Bainbridge Island rally in support of Kitsap Tenant Support Services workers. We regret the omission.

Rob Harper

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