Position Reallocated After Years of Working Out of Class
After years of performing work beyond their classification, an Olympic College member successfully secured a position reallocation through the contractual review process. Despite multiple unsuccessful requests for management to reevaluate […]
Yakima Wins!
WPEA recently discovered that Yakima Valley College hadn’t properly reclassified six of our members after their current classification was eliminated by the State last June. We immediately brought our discovery […]
WPEA Wins Back Pay for YVC Members
Yakima Wins! WPEA recently discovered that Yakima Valley College hadn’t properly reclassified six of our members after their current classification was eliminated by the State last June. We immediately brought our discovery to the attention of YVC and demanded a quick resolution.
Highline College
Big Win! The Highline WPEA contract is staying LOCAL! To keep the momentum going, we need a Bargaining Team ready by April 1st. We’ll be using a new “Interest-Based Bargaining” model this year—check out this video to see what it’s about. This is the same model that Highline fac
We did it! Budgets include WPEA contracts!
WPEA Logo Contracts are in the Budget! Both the state House and Senate released their draft 2026 supplemental budgets on Sunday, and both budgets include the three WPEA contracts that went unfunded last year. These contracts bring WPEA members up to par with other state employees
Members Made Whole After Power Outage Dispute
Pierce College has agreed to restore leave balances, or offer backpay, to members who took leave due to a power outage at the Puyallup campus in August. Members were told they could take leave, work remotely, or commute to Fort Steilacoom – even though the suspended operations pr
Lost Leave Returned!
We kept hearing from WPEA members that their rights were being violated when they requested to use their Personal Leave. We investigated and found they were right! We filed a grievance and as a result 47 WPEA bargaining unit members at YVC got 220 hours of leave back! HR argued a