Washington State Employee 11/2015

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Page 2 WFSE/AFSCME Washington State Employee November 2015

StateEmployeeWashington State Employee (USPS 981-

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THE CORNER PAGE

SAFETY CORNER

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RPEC CORNER

The cost of medical carein the United States rose by0.7 percent last year, accord-ing to the Bureau of LaborStatistics. That’s the largestincrease in eight years.

While 5 percent of an

American’s income is spenton healthcare overall, seniorsspend 20 percent of their in-come on health care.

Because of this, it is veryimportant that public employ-ees take extreme care whenplanning their healthcare cov-erage during retirement.

Below are some ques-tions that may help you on

Retirees & health careyour way, whether retirementis one year away, or 10-plusyears away.

As a public sector employee,I am automatically eligiblefor PEBB (Public Employees

Benets Board health insur-ance, right?There are three general

eligibility requirements toreceive PEBB retiree healthinsurance:

• You must enroll or defercoverage no later than 60 daysafter your employer-paid orCOBRA coverage ends. If youmiss that 60-day window,you lose all rights to enroll inthe PEBB Program in the fu-ture. To regain eligibility youwould have to return to workin a PEBB benets eligibleposition.

• You must be vested in aWashington state-sponsoredretirement plan or meet thesame age and years of serviceas is required of state-spon-sored retirees.

• You must receive a

monthly retirement plan pay-ment or a lump sum paymentas allowed by the plan, withone exception. Plan 3 members do not have to receive aretirement plan payment or alump sum actuarially equiva-

lent payment as allowed bythe plan but must meet theage and length of service re-quirements.

How should I enroll forPEBB retiree insurance?Step 1: Contact the Social Se-curity AdministrationAbout 90 days before youractive employment or COBRAends, contact the Social Secu-rity Administration to enrollin Medicare Part A and Part Bif you or any family membersyou wish to cover are entitledto Medicare.

Step 2: Request a retiree en-rollment packetSixty days before your activeemployment or COBRA endsrequest a retiree enrollmentpacket. Call 1-800-200-1004 or360-725-0440 in the Olympiaarea.

Step 3: Return your complet-ed retiree applicationYou must submit a RetireeCoverage Election/ Changeform to enroll or defer enroll-ment.

If I defer participation in themedical coverage, can I stillreceive the dental coverage?No. The dental coverage and

medical coverage go hand-in-hand.

How much does it cost?Generally, the rates changeevery Jan. 1. The averagemonthly cost of PEBB is $537for a single person who is not-Medicare eligible in 2015 and$178 for a single person whois Medicare eligible ($234 forUniform Medical).

If I do not start receiving myretirement right away, can Ikeep my health insurance?

If you do not meet theDRS criteria for retirementwhen your employment endsor you choose not to retire,you may have the option touse COBRA coverage as a“bridge” to retirement. Touse COBRA as a “bridge” toretirement, you must enrollin COBRA coverage and meetthe DRS criteria for retirement

when your COBRA coverageends.

If you are not eligible toretire according to the DRSrequirements when youseparate from employment orwhen your COBRA coverageends, you are not eligible forPEBB retiree coverage.

If you are a member ofa DRS Plan 3 separating em-ployment and have met theage and length of service re-quirements for your plan, butare not retiring with DRS, youmay still be eligible.

If my PEBB plan cov-ers prescription drugs and Ialso carry Medicare Part D,my medications are covered,right?

If your PEBB plan cov-ers medications, it does notcoordinate prescription drugcoverage with Medicare PartD. All PEBB plans coverprescription drugs exceptPremera Blue Cross MedicareSupplement Plan F. If youenroll in Medicare Part D, youmust enroll in Premera BlueCross Medicare SupplementPlan F or lose your PEBB re-tiree coverage.

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CHOOSE WISELY State open enrollment in November is a great time to choose the dental option

that makes the most sense for you and your family. Bright Now! Dental is availableto those in the Uniform Dental Plan (UDP) or Delta Care. (The Willamette option

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MEMBERS ONLY BENEFITS CORNER

NEW FOR 2016!

Through a special ar-rangement with People’sMemorial Association, dues-

paying members of the Wash-ington Federation of StateEmployees/AFSCME can geta discounted lifetime membership rate that gives themaccess to this new benet. Ithelps members and their fam-ilies avoid the confusion, salespressure and high expense of-ten associated with cremationand burial arrangements.

Members

pay one life-time membership feeof $25 (com-pared to thenormal $35fee) to join People’s Memo-rial Association. For that $25fee, members get sizeable costsavings at the association’sSeattle Cooperative FuneralHome, 19 contracted funeralhomes across Washington andsix cemeteries. You’d haveaccess to the Indigent Crema-tion Fund. You’d also becomeautomatic members of thenational Funeral Consumer’sAlliance, which has aliates

across the United States.

This is offered exclusively

for WFSE/AFSCME full dues-paying members. The lifetimemembership fee is per personand is available to all fulldues-paying members, theirimmediate families, includingtheir parents. Children under18 are covered by their par-ents’ or grandparents’ membership. Once children turn18, they must apply and payfor their own membership.

The union’s Members-Only Benets Committeeapproved our new People’sMemorial Association benetNov. 7.

Why is this new exclusivemembers-only benet im-portant?

Funeral arrangements can be one of the top expensesa family encounters in theirlifetime, after buying a houseand car. The dierence? Whenshopping for a house or car, buyers shop. They research,

compare prices and determinewhat suits them and theirfamilies best. People rarelyshop when they need funeralservices. That means the fu-

neral industry can chargewhatever they want – andconsumers have to pay it.

People’s Memorial As-sociation was formed in 1939 by a group of church con-gregations to gain collective bargaining power to do some-thing about this expensive,predatory industry.

Now, 75 years later, Peo-ple’s Memorial Associationhas more than 80,000 livingmembers. And now WFSE/AFSCME full dues-payingmembers can join those rankswith the exclusive $25 lifetimemembership with People’sMemorial Association.

For more information:• http://wfse.org/join-2/ • www.peoplesmemorial.org• (206) 529-3800• WFSE/AFSCME discountmembership information on-line:

https://peoplesmemorialorg.presencehost.net/member-ship/union-membership-form.html

New People’s Memorial Association members-only benet Spotlight benet of the month

Neville B. Crippen Grant-in-Aid Awards Three WFSE/ AFSCME members havebeen awarded Neville B.

Crippen Grant-in-Aid Awardsfor Fall Quarter 2015: Jes-sica Hausman, Local 872,Ecology, Lacey; Stacy Lang,

Local 782, Eastern State Hos-pital, Medical Lake; and KadyTitus, Local 1054, DSHS,Colville.


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UNION NEWS

SHARED LEAVE

REQUESTS

STILL IN NEED OF SHARED

LEAVE:

• Kimberly Domitrovich, amental health technician 1at Eastern State Hospital inMedical Lake and a memberof Local 782, has had surgeryand will need extensive reha-bilitation. Because of diabeticcomplications, she had to havea leg amputated. She has ex-hausted all leave resources.Contact: Laura Farley, (509)565-4680.

• Jane Zimmer, a support en-forcement ofcer 4 with DSHSin Vancouver and a memberof Local 313, is requestingshared leave to cover herextended time off during herrecuperation from a seriousaccident. Contact: Pam Miller,(360) 397-9704, or your ownhuman resource ofce.

More shared leave requests:

Joshua Drollinger, a nan-cial services specialist 4 withDSHS in Port Angeles and amember of Local 1463, hasbeen approved for shared

leave. Contact: your humanresource ofce.

Karen Lucero, a secretarysenior in the DSHS Region 2Ofce of Indian Child Wel-

fare (Division of Children andFamily Services) in Seattleand a member of Local 843,has been approved for sharedleave. Contact: your humanresource ofce.

Rene Whittington, an ofceassistant 2 with the Employ-ment Security Departmentin Olympia and a member ofLocal 443, has been approvedfor shared leave because ofa serious health condition.Contact: Felicia Wright, (360)902-9532.

Sue Martinez, a nancial ser-vices specialist 4 at the DSHSEverett Community ServiceOfce and a member of Local948, has been approved forshared leave. Contact: yourhuman resource ofce.

Jadira Amaya, an ofce as-sistant 3 in the DSHS State-wide CSD Customer ServiceContact Center HIU Team inYakima and a member of Lo-cal 1326, is in need of sharedleave donations to cover timeoff for surgery and recovery.

She has exhausted her leavebalances. Contact: ConnieWeedin, (509) 225-7931.

Demetria Batdorf, a medicalassistance specialist 3 with the

state Health Care Authority inOlympia and a member of Lo-cal 443, is in need of sharedleave through at least the endof November. Contact: yourhuman resource ofce.

Deandra Standley, a nancialservices specialist 3 at theDSHS Pierce North Commu-nity Service Ofce in Tacomaand a member of Local 53,is in need of shared leave.Contact: your human resourceofce.

Nicole Davidson, a Work-

First program specialist at theDSHS Bellingham CommunityService Ofce and a memberof Local 1060, is in need ofshared leave because of aserious medical condition. Shehas exhausted all her availableleave. Contact: your humanresource ofce.

Tamara Marshall, a nancialservices specialist 4 at theDSHS Puyallup CommunityService Ofce and a mem-ber of Local 53, has beenapproved for shared leave

because of a serious medicalcondition. She has exhaustedall her leave balances. Con-tact: your human resourceofce.

Stacey Logan, a nancialservices specialist 3 with theDSHS Child Care West Teamin Bremerton, is in need ofshared leave because of aserious health condition; shedoes not have enough accruedleave to cover all of her ab-sences. Contact: your humanresource ofce.

Michelle McDonald, a nan-cial services specialist 3 withDSHS at the Statewide CSDCustomer Service ContactCenter Southeast Team inYakima and a member of Lo-

cal 1326, is dealing with theaftermath of chemotherapyand bromyalgia. She contin-ues to need intermittent leavefor these serious health condi-tions. She has exhausted allher accrued leave. Contact:your human resource ofce.

Christine Magnuson, a nan-cial services specialist 3 withthe DSHS CSCC NorthwestPhone Team in Mount Vernonand a member of Local 1060,is in need of shared leave be-cause of a serious health con-

dition. Contact: Vickie Rothen-buhler, (360) 714-4006, or yourhuman resource ofce.

Charlie Johnson, a nancialservices specialist 4 at the

DSHS Lakewood CommunityService Ofce and a memberof Local 53, has been ap-proved for shared leave be-cause of a family member’ssevere medical condition.Contact: your human resourceofce.

Jackie Sledge, a contract of-cer with DSHS in Lacey and amember of Local 443, is recu-perating from surgery followinga recent automobile accident.She’ll need leave at leastthrough the rest of the year.Contact: your human resource

ofce.

Tonya Ahsoak-Stevens, anancial services specialist3 with DSHS in Bremerton,has been approved for sharedleave because of a seriousmedical condition. She willsoon exhaust all of her leavebalances. Contact: yourhuman resource ofce.

by DeFrance ClarkeLocal 443, L&I

The state of Washing-ton has nally recognizedthat we have a crisis in the

recruitment and retention ofInformation Technology (IT)professionals. The incred-ible variation of IT skills iscurrently represented by asingle job series (InformationTechnology Specialist or ITS1through ITS7). Gov. Jay Insleedirected the State HumanResources Division (formerlyDOP) to conduct a classica-tion study that kicked o thisspring.

State HR designed a newPosition Description Form(PDF) solely for IT workers

and requested agencies towork closely with their ITsta to complete the new jobdescriptions. A key factor inthe new form was the require-ment to identify a primaryand secondary job family thatthe position belongs to. Gen-eral descriptions of the 11 jobfamilies were provided.

Management at someagencies wrote the new PDFsthemselves with no input

from the aected employee.At other agencies (notablyLabor and Industries) it wasa collaborative eort betweenthe supervisor and the em-ployee. The new PDFs weredue to State HR by Sept. 30; but that deadline was extend-ed when many of the smalleragencies did not nish intime. At last count, State HRhad 3,972 PDFs and is startingto analyze them.

They have created an“evaluation tool” for thatanalysis and are calibrating

it with the “IT community.”WFSE is requesting a copy ofthe draft tool and informationabout who is calibrating it.When additional informationis received, it will be postedthe on WFSE website under“News, then click on IT.”

State HR has also solicitedthe agencies for panels of ex-perienced IT people in eachof the families to go throughPDFs with the tool. They ex-pect the panels to be formed by mid-November and towork an entire day once a

Solving the IT recruitment and retention problemweek for about eight weeks.At L&I the request ltereddown to the worker level witha request for volunteers. Atother agencies union activistsrequested to be allowed tovolunteer.

What has the Union done?

WFSE has appointed Eliz-abeth Turnbow, a WFSE orga-nizing supervisor, to monitorthe process of the IT Classi-cation Study and to mobilizeIT members to provide inputto the state in order to get the best possible outcome for ourmembers. Elizabeth is work-ing in concert with WFSE’sClassication and Compensa-tion sta. She has organizeda steering committee and has

held two meetings for inter-ested members. More meet-ings are planned.

What can you do?

1. Get involved. Send yourhome email address to Eliza- [email protected] to get onthe contact list. If you wouldrather be contacted by text orphone, let Elizabeth know.

2. Get a copy of your new IT

PDF (Position DescriptionForm). Examine it closely tomake sure it represents the jobyou are doing now. If you are being told the new form is notavailable to you, let Elizabeth(and your WFSE/AFSCMEcouncil representative) knowas soon as possible.

3. Are you a subject-matterexpert? Ask your supervi-sor and your human resourcedepartment to forward yourname as a subject matter ex-pert to the evaluation teamfor the IT family identied onyour PDF (Position Descrip-tion Form).

4. Come to the next meeting scheduled in your worksiteto make sure your views areincluded in our strategy goingforward.

Clarke (standing) lays out IT options at one worksite meeting earlier this year atLabor and Industries in Tumwater.

WFSE/AFSCME joinedother education unions Oct.29 to urge caution as theState Board for Community

WFSE/AFSCME, coalition urge cautionon budget reductions at colleges

and Technical Colleges imple-ments a new budget alloca-tion model sparked in part by a reduction in base state

funding.The board is phasing thereductions in over four years.

WFSE/AFSCME HigherEducation Strategic Coordi-nator Mark Hamilton joinedwith coalition partners Ameri-can Federation of Teachers-Washington, Washington

Public Employees Associationand the Washington Educa-tion Association at the boardmeeting.

“Together we will be keeping

a close eye on the implemen-tation and impacts of the newallocation method, and would

like to be seen as a partnerin minimizing the impactsto our members’ workingconditions and the studentslearning conditions,” Hamil-ton told the board.


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EVERY VOICE COUNTS : Mark your calendars

WFSE/AFSCME Washington State EmployeePage 4 November 2015

A full-court press byall levels of Local 1488 andWFSE/AFSCME on Oct.27 won an historic victoryagainst outsourcing the workof Trades members at the Uni-versity of Washington.

That agreement settled

about 34 grievances and 11unfair labor practice com-plaints over illegal outsourc-ing. And it puts in place anew contracting process thatgives our members a role ondecisions to contract out, not just the impacts, FederationCouncil Representative SarahBright said.

The settlement comeswith $55,000 to divide amongaected trades members, shesaid.

Illegal outsourcing hasnow cost the UW $100,000

since June when memberswon $45,000 in the Husky Sta-dium case.

“This work belongs tous,” Bright said.

The kind of work beingoutsourced included suchthings as painting of parkinggarages and renishing oors,she said.

The victory recognizesthe quality and expertise ofthe workers and “a sincereopportunity for our membersto make suggestions to savemoney,” Bright said.

Big wins at the University of Washington ...The full-court press came

from Local 1488 members led by President Paula Lukaszekand WFSE/AFSCME councilrepresentatives, labor advo-cates, organizers, attorneys,and sta in contract compli-ance, strategic campaigns and

those dealing with the PublicEmployment Relations Com-mission.

But the major credit goesto the Trades members whoquickly blew the whistle onthe outsourcing and kept upthe ground-level monitoring.

“Members paid attentionand alerted Paula,” Brightsaid. “If members weren’t onthe watch, this wouldn’t havehappened.”

The grievances and ULPcomplaints began dropping in July 2014 and kept coming as

UW Trades members kept uptheir outsourcing watch.That also set in motion

a very meticulous, scienticeort with a robust team ofexpertise that tracked the out-sourcing on big spreadsheetswith documentation llingvolumes of les.

That eort included anearly-on session one Sundaythis past December when Lu-kaszek, Bright and WFSE/AF-SCME Contract ComplianceManager Jeanine Livingston built a matrix of the outsourc-

ing targets on a big computerscreen at Federation Head-quarters in Olympia.

But this wasn’t the onlygood news for UW memberslast month:

• Bad attendance policy

rescinded

On Oct. 26, WFSE/AF-SCME and the UW settled agroup grievance over an at-tendance policy that insulted

the intelligence and dedica-tion of Facilities Maintenanceand Construction members onthe main campus in Seattle.

At issue was a new at-tendance policy centering onrequesting vacations. The pre-vious policy had worked wellsince it began in 1995.

But last year, the unioncaught wind that a new policymight be proposed. Manage-ment denied it, then imple-mented a plan 11 days laterwithout bargaining.

The new policy required

more onerous advance noticefor vacation time, with anyslip-ups resulting in informalcoaching or factored into eval-uations. Worse, some got theirleave requests returned with a big orange “U” (for unsched-uled) sprawled across it.

Two of the memberscaught up in this were JamesGrady and Stan Withers whowere simply trying to use ac-crued leave before their leave balances hit the max andthey’d lose it.

This settlement wipes outany detrimental statementscaused by the attendance pol-icy from their personnel les,rescinds the controversialpolicy and commits to a newpolicy – bargained with theunion – in the next 90 days.

“So it’s a complete win

and really important to a lotof these guys because it wasso insulting,” Bright said.

“It’s a victory for all ofour members because hope-fully it sets a precedent,”Grady said.

“They say we don’t de-serve any more money so wecan’t let them take the ben-ets that we do have,” With-ers said.

Bright (left) and Lukaszek in early tracking session that led to the $55,000settlement of more than 34 challenges of illegal outsourcing at the UW.

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Mark your calendar for the Statewide Day of Action Dec. 3

Gov. Jay Inslee’snew budgetcomes out in De-

cember.On Thursday, Dec. 3,

we will have a statewidedesk drop covering theimpact of budget andrevenue on our healthcare, wages and serviceswe provide.

We’ve all seen the recentmedia reports – balanced andunbalanced – about the ser-vices our members provide

and the funding hurdles theyface protecting us and someof this state’s most vulnerablecitizens.

Legislators are quicklynding themselves in the un-enviable position of limited

general fund dollars, a newlypassed Tim Eyman initiativethat threatens to shrink thestate general fund even more,and service gaps in our safetynet services that approach un-constitutional levels.

But no matter where youwork, mark your calendar forour Day of Action Dec. 3

Why a Day of Action?

We must take action toensure the governor makesvital services and the work-load of public employees atop priority.

For more information...

For more information onthe Dec. 3 Statewide Day ofAction and how you can helpget information to co-workers:

• Call your union councilrepresentative at your near-

est WFSE/AFSCME eldofce:

Seattle – 1-800-924-5754Smokey Pt. – 1-800-967-3816Olympia – 1-800-624-0256Tacoma – 1-800-924-5753

Vancouver – 1-800-967-9356Spokane – 1-800-442-8618Yakima – 1-800-439-9855

• Or contact Irene Smith inour Organizing Department,1-800-562-6002 or [email protected]

For general information:• Go to wfse.org

• Follow us on Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/ wfsec28/

• Call our Hotline:1-800-562-6102

Health

carematters

WFSE/AFSCME is oering Health Care Workshops toinform you about what you’ve gained – and important futuretrends and strategies to avoid extra costs.

It can be complicated but it’s important to talk about the fu-ture of our health care.

One key part of the workshop is the impact of the excise taxthe Aordable Care Act will impose on “high-cost” employer-sponsored health coverage. The workshops will present strate-gies to avoid the tax.

Schedule a WFSE/AFSCME Health Care WorkshopWhy the WFSE/AFSCME Health Care Workshops are im-portant:

• In the weeks & months ahead, we need to prepare for ournext contract. WFSE/AFSCME-led coalition bargaining willtake place in Summer 2016.• Learn about how all of us banding together as a union caninuence health care costs and coverage for state employees.• What’s ahead for the state’s SmartHealth wellness program.• Future pressures on plan design and other future trends.

Schedule a WFSE/AFSCME Health Care Workshop

at your worksite or your local union meeting.Contact: Sue Keller -- [email protected] or 1-800-562-6002.


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THE FACES OF THE 72 MEMBERS OF YOUR NEW E-BOARD

Policy Committees elect 72-member Executive BoardWFSE/AFSCME’s 10 policy committees on Nov. 7 elected their allotted mem-

bers to the union’s Statewide Executive Board, the highest decision-making bodyin the union between conventions. With the four statewide ofcers elected at theconvention in October, these 68 newly elected board members bring the board toits full 72-member strength.

WFSE/AFSCME’s 10 current policy committees meet to discuss, debate and

Employment Security Policy Committee ofcers: Chair - Ginger Bernethy, Local 443, Olympia; Vice-Chair -- Rosanna Lugo, Local 396, Walla Walla; andSecretary -- Terry Murphy, Local 1060, Mount Vernon.

set policy on issues unique to the employees within their jurisdiction.

Under the formula set out in the union’s constitution, each of the 10 commit-tees gets one board position for every 500 members (rounded to the next highest500). No committee gets fewer than two seats on the board.

Delegates also elected their three policy committee ofcers: chair, vice-chairand secretary.

Institutions of Higher Education Policy Committee ofcers: Chair - Craig Walker, Local 931, Eastern Washington University, Cheney; Vice-Chair -- Matthew

Davenhall, Local 304, Seattle College; and Secretary -- Kathleen Warren, Local 931, Eastern Washington University, Cheney.

L&I Policy Committee Policy Committee of-

cers: Chair - DeFrance Clarke, Local 443; ViceChair - Ken Grubb Local 443, Tumwater; and

Secretary -- Imelda Ang, Local 443, Tumwater.

LABOR & INDUSTRIES

Elected to the board from the Institutions of Higher Education Policy Committee: Quincy Burns, Local 931, Eastern Washington University, Cheney; LinCrowley, Local 443, The Evergreen State College, Olympia; Joe Davenport, Local 1488, University of Washington, Seattle; Vicki Echerd, Local 1400, LowerColumbia College, Longview; Rodolfo Franco, Local 304, Seattle College; Rick Halverson, Local 1221, Community Colleges of Spokane; Skip Jensen, Local 330,Central Washington University, Ellensburg; Paula Lukaszek, Local 1488, University of Washington, Seattle; Ty Pethe, Local 304, Seattle College; Max Phipps, Local 1020, Everett Community College; Angie Simpson, Local 53, Tacoma Community College; Tashia Smith-Hankerson, Local 1488, University of Washington,Seattle; Claude Theard, Local 1488, University of Washington, Seattle; and Craig Walker, Local 931, Eastern Washington University, Cheney.

Elected to the board from the Labor andIndustries Policy Committee: ThorntonAlberg, Local 443, Tumwater; Imelda Ang, Local 443, Tumwater; Stacy Copland, Local 1253, Kennewick; and CarmynShute, Local 443, Tumwater.

Board members elected from the Employment Security Policy Committee:Ginger Bernethy, Local 443, Olympia; Joanne Bird, Local 443, Olympia; andRosanna Lugo, Local 396, Walla Walla.

Bird, Lugo, Bernethy and Murphy.

EMPLOYMENT SECURITY PUBLIC SERVICE

Members elected from the Public Service PolicyCommittee: Tami Lentz, Local 1671, Snohomish; andLeroy Mould, Local 1671, Interpreters, Olympia.

Public

Service PolicyCommitteeofcers:

Chair -- GabrielOseguera, Local

1671, Interpreters,Renton.Vice-Chair

-- Fahad

Abdulwahid, Local 1671,

Interpreters,Covington.Secretary --Tatiana Fields,

Local 1671,Interpreters,

Spokane.Oseguera, Mould, Lentz and Abdulwahid.

INSTITUTIONS OFHIGHER EDUCATION

From left: Crowley, Halverson, Phipps, Pethe, Echerd, Lukaszek, Smith-Hankerson, Davenhall, Theard, Davenport, Franco, Jensen and Walker.

From left: Ang, Alberg, Shute andCopland.

From left: L&I Policy Commit-tee Chair DeFrance Clarke andSecretary Imelda Ang.


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Miscellaneous Policy Committee Ofcers: Chair - Ingrid

Hansen, Local 443, Health, Tumwater; Vice-Chair -- JeffPaulsen, Local 443, Consolidated Technology Services, Olym-

pia; and Secretary -- Linda Erickson, Local 443, Health CareAuthority, Olympia.

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THE FACES OF THE 72 MEMBERS OF YOUR NEW E-BOARD

DSHS HUMAN SERVICES

Human Services Policy Committeeofcers: Chair - Adam Draude, Lo-

cal 443, Olympia; Vice-Chair -- ShayKaushagen, Local 313, Vancouver;and Secretary -- Brenna Schimpf,

Local 948, Everett.

Institutions Policy Committee ofcers: Chair - Michele Stelovich, Local 1060, Bellingham; Vice Chair -Lyn Hoand, Retsil, Local 482; Secretary - Zochershea Butler, Local 491, Rainier School, Buckley.

Board members elected from the Institutions Policy Committee: Dolly Adeyemi, Local 341, FircrestSchool, Shoreline; Craig Gibelyou, Local 793, Western State Hospital, Lakewood; Gabe Hall, Local 862,Green Hill School, Chehalis; Kevin Hamel, Local 341, Fircrest School, Shoreline; Rick Hertzog, Local793, Western State Hospital, Lakewood; Lyn Hoand, Local 482, Veterans’ Home, Retsil; Lee Malinda, Local 573, Lakeland Village, Medical Lake; Julianne Moore, Local 1326, Yakima Valley School, Selah;Mike Murphy, Local 491, Rainier School, Buckley; Eliga Sacks, Local 793, Special Commitment Center,McNeil Island; Michele Stelovich, Local 1060, DD Field Services, Bellingham; Diane Womack, Local782, Eastern State Hospital, Medical Lake; and Steven Yates, Local 491, Rainier School, Buckley.

CORRECTIONS

Corrections Policy Committee ofcers:

Chair - Jon Oglesby, Local 1221, Spokane; ViceChair - Rick DeBay, Local 1060, Bellingham.

Members elected from the CorrectionsPolicy Committee: Bill Copland, Local 1253,Community Corrections, Tri-Cities; Rick DeBay,Local 1060, Bellingham; and Alice Rogers, Local1253, Community Corrections, Tri-Cities.

Elected from Human Services: Kevin Allen, Local 843, Seattle; Adam Draude, Local 443, Olympia; Cynthia English, Local 53, Tacoma; Shay Kaushagen, Local 313, Vancouver; Tim Hughes, Local 313, Vancouver; Steve Fossum, Local 443, Olympia; Michele Loper, Local 313, Vancouver; Katie Nelson, Local 443,Olympia; Addie Rodriguez, Local 1326, Yakima; Brenna Schimpf, Local 948, Everett; Debbie Sills, Local 1326, Yakima; Ed Tilton, Local 862, Centralia; CarolVan Arnam, Local 1299, Wenatchee; and Tracy (Fosty) Wilson, Local 1060, Bellingham.

Elected from Miscellaneous: Wendy Conway, Local 443,Ofce of the Insurance Commissioner, Olympia; LindaErickson, Local 443, Health Care Authority, Olympia; IngridHansen, Local 443, Health, Olympia; Scott Hone, Local 1225,School for the Blind, Vancouver; Jeff Paulsen, Local 443,Consolidated Technology Services, Olympia; Heather Pyles,

Local 313, Washington State Patrol Crime Lab, Vancouver;and Brooks Salazar, Local 304, Board of Industrial InsuranceAppeals, Seattle. (An eighth seat is vacant.)

From left: Copland, Oglesby, Rogers and DeBay.

From left (being swornin by WFSE/AF-SCME President SueHenricksen): Sacks,Hertzog, Stelovich,Womack, Moore,Yates, Hamel andMurphy.

INSTITUTIONS

Transportation Policy Committee ofcers: Chair - Larry Flue, Lo-

cal 378, Seattle; Vice-Chair -- Sam Schnieder, Local 1299, George;and Secretary -- Georgina Willner, Local 443, Olympia.

Elected from the Transportation Policy Committee: LarryFlue, Local 378, Seattle; Steve Fries, Local 1299, Moses Lake;Roberto Guerrero, Local 1299, Othello; Kate Rogers, Local 1060,Greenbank; and Georgina Willner, Local 443, Olympia.

TRANSPORTATION

From left: Guerrero, Flue, Fries, Rogers, Willner and Schneider.

Natural Resources Policy Committee ofcers: Chair - Paul Pickett, Local 872, Ecol- ogy, Lacey; Vice-Chair -- Guy Hoyle-Dodson, Local 872, Ecology, Lacey; and Secretary-- Llyn Doremus, Local 1221, Ecology, Spokane.

Elected from the Natural Resources Policy Committee: Llyn Doremus, Local 1221,Ecology, Spokane; Denis Felton, Local 1466, Parks, Coulee City; Steve Fraidenburg, Local 443, Natural Resources, Olympia; Elena Guilfoil, Local 872, Ecology, Lacey; andEddie Holbrook, Local 1253, Ecology, Tri-Cities.

NATURAL RESOURCES From left: Holbrook, Felton, Doremus, Guil-foil, Pickett, Fraidenburg and Hoyle-Dodson.

MISCELLANEOUS From left: Hone, Erickson,Paulsen, Hansen, Conway

and Pyles.

From left: Nelson, Allen, Sil ls, Fosty-Wilson, Schimpf, Draude, English, Fossum, Hughes, Tilton, Loper, Rodriguez and Kaushagen.


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EVERY VOICE COUNTS: Members in action

WFSE/AFSCME Washington State EmployeePage 8 November 2015

Our Community Cor-rections members make adierence and keep us safeevery day.

Now comes the story of

Local 53 member ThomasGrabski.

We can’t say it any bet-ter than this Department ofCorrections Oct. 6 post fromDOC Press Secretary An-drew Garber:

“TACOMA – A stateDepartment of Correc-

Local 53 Community Corrections member

lauded for arresting big-time drug dealerCommunity Response

Unit Specialist

Thomas Grabski(photo courtesy DOC)

MORE ONLINE 8Read more aboutthis heroic episodeat: http://www.doc.wa.gov/news/ stories/2015/100615-Grabski-drug-bust.asp

tions’ specialist, assigned tothe FBI’s South Sound Task

Force, arrested a wanted drugdealer and conscated morethan $100,000 in cash and

ve pounds of methamphet-amine at a residential duplexlast week.

“Ofcer Thomas Grabski(WFSE/AFSCME Local 53 inPierce County) got a tip lastmonth that Robert Henrick-son, a wanted felon, was stor-ing and selling large amountsof drugs. After tracking down

his location in Tacoma, andwatching him for a few daysto make sure that’s wherehe lived, Grabski and sev-eral other ofcers arrestedHenrickson when he walkedoutside his home this pastThursday night.”

A group of Local 304custodians at Green RiverCollege in Auburn – workingpeople like the rest of us who just want to get paid for thework they do – continue tospeak together.

In this case, when collegeadministrators changed therules over their work shifts.

Green River College members speak up together

Over the summer GreenRiver College told third shiftcustodians that they werechanging the rules and in-tended to get rid of their shift(except for two positions) andthat they’d need to “volun-teer” for rst or second shift.

Management and hu-man resources tried to do this

without a demand to bargain– the formal name for simplyallowing workers to speak uptogether. When asked aboutit at their union-managementmeeting, the facilities directorsaid that all the custodianshad already volunteered andthat it was taken care of.

“We knew this didn’t

sound right so we startedmeeting with third shift custo-dians,” said WFSE/AFSCMECouncil Representative KaiteMark. “We heard stories frommembers about how cata-strophic this change will beto their personal lives. Mostof our members on this shift

work second jobs and/or carefor their children and grand-children during the day.”

Because every voice counts,

the shift change didn’t sit wellwith these custodians.

Members drafted andsigned a petition to retain thethird shift and they sharedpersonal stories about whythis will be a hardship at thedemand to bargain meeting,Mark said.

“Six out of the nine af-fected custodians came to thedemand to bargain meetingafter working a full shift, only

to go back to work later thatday,” she said. “The dedica-tion and hard work put in byour members around this isabsolutely amazing.”

Unfortunately, the employer

was not willing to retain thethird shift, and showed little

to no empathy around theiremployees’ personal stories ofhardship in any shift change,Mark said.

“While we did not win onthis, members got mobilizedand active,” she said. “Theywant to spread the wordabout what is happeningand bring light to the fact theGreen River administrationis continuously ignoring thevoices of their employees andstudents.”

These Green River custo-dians are strong. But speak-ing up together as a union,they’re stronger.

Green River College custodians standing strong.

Local 862 in the LewisCounty communities in andaround Chehalis and Cen-tralia has made sure moreof their neighbors won’t gohungry.

The local on Oct. 22 con-

Chehalis/Centralia Local 862 feeds hungry neighbors

Local 862 members and allies present food bank donation to DSHS Secretary Kevin Quigley. From left: Karla Miles, PattiStoumbaugh, Karen Mork (presenting check), Quigley, Lesona Hartman and Sheila Brooks.

tributed $500 to the DSHS“Everyone Eats Tour” as partof this year’s Combined FundDrive campaign.

The CFD will forwardthe Local 862 donation to theLewis County Food Bank.

WFSE/AFSCME President Sue Henricksen swears in new ofcers at Washing-ton State University Local 1066 Oct. 7 in Pullman. From left: President DerekJones, Secretary Eric Needham and Treasurer Lance Mitchell.

State Human Services Local 843 (King County) on Oct. 14elected its new ofcers for the next year:

President – Margaret McDonald; Vice President – Fred Lap-pert; Secretary-Treasurer – Glenda Cummins; RecordingSecretary – Jennifer Alley; Executive Board – Gregg Gun-ther, Lynnette Campbell, Anne Sacquitne, Jacquie Jones-

Walsh, Thais Marbles; Trustee – Rhonda Buchanan.

New Local 843 ofcers being sworn in by WFSE/AFSCME’s Anne-Marie Cavanaugh.

New ofcers elected at Local 843

DSHS Secretary KevinQuigley visited the localDSHS oce in the LewisCounty Mall, with turnoutfrom members in DSHS, Em-ployment Security and Cor-rections.

New ofcers at WSU Local 1066

SHOP STEWARD CORNER

The WFSE/AFSCME Shop Steward Committee is asking shopstewards what ideas they have to add to the union’s current web-based grievance tracking system. E-mail ideas to Jean Backman

at [email protected].

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