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April 12, 2021
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Welfare & Pension Inc. Strike Information
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WPAS Strike is Over!
OPEIU Local 8 reached a
Tentative Agreement
with Welfare and Pension Administration Services, Inc. that was ratified by the strikers this past Monday, September 25, 2017.
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Mercer Island Reporter
- 70 Mercer Island union workers continue strike
Wed. Sept. 20, 2017: About 70 Mercer Island workers have been on strike for more than a month, peacefully picketing and chanting near Island Corporate Center on Southeast 24th Street almost every day since leaving their desks on Aug. 23.
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Union Solidarity Rally
Support Striking Welfare & Pension Inc. Workers
Thursday, September 14, 12:00 noon - 1:00 pm
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WPAS Strike News - Aug. 31, 2017
WPAS Employees Walk Out To Go on Strike
–On August 16, OPEIU members at Welfare and Pension Administrative Services Inc. (WPAS) overwhelmingly rejected the employer’s second last, best, and final offer and voted to go on strike. Exactly when the strike was to occur was not known. Everyone was wondering when was it going to happen.
On Wednesday, August 23 at approximately 11:45 am OPEIU representatives arrived at WPAS’s Mercer Island office and declared “WE ARE ON STRIKE” to WPAS workers. WPAS workers who occupy the 2nd and 3rd floor of the office building left their desks and hit the street. Those who weren’t working in the office but were telecommuting received an email at the same time to let them know the strike had begun.
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Strike Press Release - Aug. 23, 2017
Welfare & Pension Inc. Workers Go on Strike
– Mercer Island, WA – The workers who administer health and pension benefits for thousands of union members in the Pacific Northwest are going on strike. After 11 months of negotiations and 7 months without a contract, members of the Office and Professional Employees International Union Local 8 who work at Welfare & Pension Administration Services, Inc. voted to go out on strike.
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Strike Q & A
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Workers On Strike
We are out on strike because after 11 months of negotiations, our employer's last, best and final offer attacks the fundamental principles of worker rights...
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Seattle Times
- Seattle-area union members who dole out benefits to other union workers go on strike
Both the union and the company noted the irony of the labor dispute, which is happening at an office that serves members of other local unions.
Union workers go on strike around Seattle from time to time. But what happens when office administrators who serve union workers go on strike?
On Wednesday, a local union whose members handle pension and health-care benefits for about 250,000 unionized workers in the Puget Sound region and across the West announced it was fed up with negotiations with its members’ employer and went on strike.
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The Stand
- WPAS benefit administrators go on strike
MERCER ISLAND, Wash. (Aug. 23, 2017) - The workers who administer health and pension benefits...
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The Stand
- Rally against WPAS union-busting Wednesday in Seattle
(March 22, 2017) SEATTLE - About 100 employees at...
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