Local 117 member, Sergeant Michael Boe of the Monroe Correctional Complex, was in Olympia on Wednesday to testify in support of Senate Bill 6566, a proposed law that affirms the...Read More

This week the House and Senate released their supplemental budget proposals, and there is some good news for Teamsters at the Department of Corrections.   Both the House and Senate have...Read More

For a sample of the representational work on behalf of Teamsters at the DOC for the month of February, check out the DOC facility news section of the website. In February, contract...Read More

Two officers, members of Teamsters 117, were assaulted yesterday by an inmate in the library of the Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla.  The officers were transported to a local...Read More

Thank you to the many members who spoke with legislators in support of HB 2421, Representative Schmick’s bill, which would fund a study of DOC staffing levels.  While the bill...Read More

Representative Mike Sells of the 38th Legislative District has sent a letter to Attorney General Bob Ferguson requesting a legal opinion regarding supplemental pension options for state employees that exist outside of...Read More

The Clallam Bay Corrections Center is on lockdown after an offender stabbed a Local 117 corrections officer in the neck with a fabricated weapon at approximately 10:15 a.m. on February...Read More

For a sample of the representational work on behalf of Teamsters at the DOC for the month of January, check out the DOC facility news section of the website. January was a...Read More

Starting Monday, February 3, the DOC is required to post a ruling in favor of the Union by the Public Employees Relations Commission (PERC) indicating that the Department committed a...Read More

January 29th marks the three-year anniversary of the death of Jayme Lee Biendl, the Correctional Officer and member of Teamsters Local 117 who was tragically murdered at the Monroe Correctional...Read More