State employees make their concerns heard in Capitol

Washington state workers voice opposition to proposed budget cuts - Northwest Public Broadcasting

Washington Federation of State Employees members Ryan Schmautz and Chris Vasseur-Landriault hold a WFSE flag at a rally in the state capital. Workers voiced their opposition to proposed budget cuts to state services. (Credit: Lauren Gallup / NWPB) Listen https://www.nwpb.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/State-workers-rallly-web_mixdown.mp3(Runtime 4:09) Read A state budget deficit is normally no…

Dozens enter Washington State Capitol, protesting budget cuts

Dozens of protesters made their way into the Washington State Capitol building on Wednesday. The group, called Workers Strike Back, posted video of their movement on social media platform ‘X.’ “No cuts! No furloughs! Strike, strike, strike,” the group shouted. Follow this link to read additional stories from KIRO 7 The protest is in response to Governor Bob Ferguson’s plan for $7 billion in budget cuts over the next four years. The cuts would r…

Protest erupts at WA Capitol, as outraged state workers slam Ferguson over furlough plan • Washington State Standard

Hundreds of state workers entered the capitol to protest potential furloughs amid a massive budget shortfall on Wednesday, April 9, 2025. (Photo by Jacquelyn Jimenez Romero/Washington State Standard)Hundreds of Washington state workers descended on the Capitol on Wednesday, staging a sit-in outside the governor’s office and a march to the gates of the executive mansion to protest potential furloughs amid a massive budget shortfall. Workers from …

State employees make their concerns heard in Capitol

Chants of "tax the rich" echoed through rotunda in Washington state on Wednesday.

WA union marches into state Capitol as budget bargaining boils over

OLYMPIA – Escalating tensions around cuts for Washington’s budget and potential furloughs boiled over Wednesday afternoon as hundreds of workers stormed into the state Capitol building to pick a fight.

Shocker! The wage report Dunleavy delayed shows most state employees are underpaid - The Alaska Current

The report finds that more than half of state employees are paid below what has long been considered competitive under state policy.