One of the services the Washington State Labor Council, AFL-CIO provides its affiliated unions is legislative education and advocacy. As…
The 2023 Convention of the Washington State Labor Council, AFL-CIO was held July 18-20 in SeaTac at the DoubleTree by…
This toolkit will serve as a guide for the WSLC’s legislative program as we continue to build power for all working people and integrate racial equity into all that we do.
A toolkit providing documented and undocumented workers, worker advocates and union leaders with the resources and support they need to create a just and fair future for immigrants in the U.S.
Assisting Washington's injured workers with the early and successful resolution of workers' compensation claims.
We are more than 600 union locals and councils representing more than 550,000 rank-and-file union members throughout the State of Washington.
We are building coalitions with other advocates for better jobs, health care, apprenticeship and education, civil rights, senior citizens, affordable housing, immigration reform and a sustainable environment.
We are calling for policies that put people and families first, value work and public service, provide opportunities for all, and improve our quality of life in the Pacific Northwest.
If you want news and opinion from Washington state that hasn’t gone through the commercial media’s filter, The Stand is for you. A free service of the WSLC that accepts no advertising, The Stand features news about — and for — working people. Its reports and opinion columns focus on creating and maintaining quality jobs, improving our families’ quality of life, and promoting public policies that will restore shared prosperity. Also, subscribe to have it delivered via email every weekday morning.
"UNIONS have been the only powerful and effective voice working people have ever had in the history of this country."
Bruce Springsteen
"We need to get back to the idea that 'we all do better when we all do better.' And I think that means: STRONG UNIONS."
Sen. Elizabeth Warren
"The labor movement was the principal force that transformed misery and despair into hope and progress... The captains of industry did not lead this transformation; they resisted it until they were overcome."
The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"The road to social justice for the farm worker is the road of unionization... This conviction is what brings spirit, high hope and optimism to everything we do."
Cesar Chavez
"Every advance in this half-century -- Social Security, civil rights, Medicare, aid to education, one after another -- came with the support and leadership of American Labor."
Jimmy Carter
