Rally @ Amazon HQ: No Shutdown, Tax the Rich!

RALLY
Tuesday, June 27
5:00 pm @ Amazon HQ
410 Terry Ave. N., Seattle

No state shutdown!

Tax the wealthy and corporate profits

Fund education, social services and living wages for state employees!

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Enough is enough! If you are state worker holding a pink slip, courtesy of state legislators who don’t do their job, bring it to the rally so we can burn it! If you are a working person who is tired of seeing the corporate elite get away with paying so little in taxes, while you get taxed out of your home and the state services you rely on are slashed to the bone, this rally is for you!

Tax avoider

Amazon pays an effective tax rate on their profits, which includes all local, state and federal taxes, of only 14%. That is less than half what Walmart pays! In a city where two of the three richest men in the world live, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos being one of them, we should not be seeing drastic budget cuts at community colleges and poverty wages for state workers

Unfair to workers

SIS security workers are trying to win fair wages and an end to unfair religious practices on the job. Yet Amazon stands by as SIS, their security contractor, retaliates against employees for exercising their legal right to organize a union. Demand that Amazon respect security staff and their rights now! For information and ways to support these SIS workers, contact SEIU Local 6 at 206-448-7348.

Sponsored by: Washington Federation of State Employees Local 304 For more information, contact WFSE 304 Secretary Steve Hoffman at 206-915-1910, stevhoff@earthlink.net.

General Membership Meeting Location for Thursday 5/25 & Local 304 Newsletter

(email from our local’s recording secretary, Steve Hoffman – he also shared the May 2017 Local 304 Newsletter/Meeting announcement which you should have received in the mail.  If you didn’t, please confirm your address with Council 28.)

Hello WFSE 304ers.

I am writing to make sure that you know that our May general membership meeting will be in Bellevue. We are trying moving the meeting around to bring the union to the members who live and work all over King County. See the info below. I have also attached the May newsletter, in case you did not get it in the mail. It also talks about our exciting job actions on May 24.

GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING NOTICE
TIME/DATE: Thursday, May 25, 2017 from 6pm to 8pm
SPECIAL LOCATION: Department of Ecology
Northwest Regional  Office
3190 160th Ave. SE, Bellevue, WA (see directions below)

AGENDA: Getting our pay raises funded, protecting members during budget cuts, union reports, and your concerns.

Layoff, Budget, Reorganization & Contracting Out Info Request

This is the information request we delivered to Dr. Edwards Lange on May 10th (pictured above).  We are demanding basic information, not rumors, about what’s going on in our workplace to make sure our voices are included and our rights are respected.

Here’s a list of what we’ve asked for, and what we’ve gotten back.  For requests that don’t include documents with our members names on them, we’ll link them below as we get them:

1. Information about layoffs: no response
2. List of vacation positions: no response
3. List of posted classified positions: provided on 5/18
4. List of classified positions eliminated by attrition: no response
5. Current seniority list: provided on 5/18
6. Breakdown of district’s cash balance: no response
7. Information about reorganizations: no response
8. Copy of all requests for contractor proposals: no response
9. Copy of all contracts issued: no response
10. Cost estimates for contracted out projects: no response
11. Other information about contracted out projects: no response
12. Final costs of all contracted out projects: no response
13. Info that contracted out work was paid at the prevailing wage: no response
14. Confirmation that work was offered to WFSE members before being contracted out: no response
15. Copies of warranties and maintenance agreements given to the college for contracted out projects: no response