Structure & Leadership – WFSE Local 443

Public servants at over three dozen state agencies, boards, commissions, and colleges call WFSE Local 443 home. If your duty station is located in Mason or Thurston County, then odds are 443 is your local union.

Members’ union dues are paid to our statewide union, AFSCME Council 28 aka WFSE, and a portion of those dues are then disbursed to the locals throughout the state. 443, the biggest local in WFSE, is a member-led democratic organization one step up from the shop floor where public servants come together for the shared interests of safe, healthy, just, rewarding, and respectful workplaces, higher wages, greater benefits, better working conditions, and much more.

We elect members to lead our local. We create a sustainable operating budget that reflects our priorities. We hold monthly general membership meetings to conduct union business, and we have committees to carry out union organizing activities, engage in political action, educate members, and train shop stewards. We sponsor community events like blood drives and Public Service Recognition Week. We send local delegates to WFSE, AFSCME International, and WSLC conventions and union conferences like Labor Notes, and we elect local delegates to statewide WFSE committees and regional AFL-CIO labor councils.

If your workplace isn’t in the union, but you want to organize for power, please reach out!

The Executive Board

As the elected leadership body of WFSE Local 443, the executive board works in harmony as a team to determine the goals and objectives of our local and develop plans and strategies to achieve those goals. Members serve two-year terms, and elections are held in January and February in odd-numbered years.