Thank You, RPEC: Retirement Planning
A big thank you to Jakob from the Retired Public Employees Council (RPEC) for joining this week’s UNITY meeting and delivering an excellent presentation on retirement planning. The session covered […]
STTACC Conference
Registration is now open for the 2026 STTACC Conference, hosted by Grays Harbor College on August 12–13, 2026. If you wish to attend the conference in person at Gray’s Harbor […]
STTACC Conference
Registration is now open for the 2026 STTACC Conference, hosted by Grays Harbor College on August 12–13, 2026. Bellevue College Human Resources has registered BC for the Whole College Virtual […]
Retirement Planning Starts Here
PROCESS How workers organize collective action through… Patterns Many workplace problems start the same way. A worker experiences something frustrating: a schedule change, a confusing policy, or a decision that doesn’t seem consistent. At first, it may feel like an individual s
Heads Up: Freedom Foundation
Heads Up: Freedom Foundation We’ve received notice that the Freedom Foundation has been contacting members via their work emails. We wanted to reach out and give our members a heads up in case they receive(d) any messages from someone with an email domain of @optouttoday.com. Ple
Steward Workshop: Difficult Supervisors
POWER Escalation https://www.wpea.org Workers sometimes bring forward a reasonable request and hear the same response: “We can’t do that right now.” Months later, the same issue appears again. More workers raise it. Meetings happen. Eventually, the decision changes. If the issue
Sustaining the Work
Over the last month we’ve talked about how issues move from quiet conversations to coordinated action. Each step built on the last. Each step had the potential to resolve the problem. Sometimes that happens quickly. Often it doesn’t. When a group has been acting together for a wh
Getting Organized
Over the last few weeks we’ve moved step by step. We started with small actions that reduced isolation. We made issues visible inside the workplace. We shared them publicly in a coordinated way. Each of those stages had the potential to resolve the problem, and sometimes they do,
Taking It Public, Together
Over the last two weeks we’ve talked about acting together in small ways and making issues visible inside the workplace. Those steps are close to home. They build confidence and […]
Coworker Signaling
Last week I talked about acting together in small ways. About how supporting each other, even briefly, can change how an issue is received and how it can address how alone or how supported people feel when they raise their issue. Sometimes, though, those early steps don’t resolve