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SEIU 925 is 20,000 union members statewide, united across education and public service. We are school bus drivers, child care providers, healthcare professionals, public defenders, paraeducators, custodians, administrative support personnel, and more.
No matter where we come from or the color of our skin, we are in solidarity, arms linked to stand up for our families, communities, and the people we serve. With federal attacks mounting, we call on legislators to:
Raise progressive revenue to fund state priorities
Washington’s upside down tax code has long hamstrung our state’s ability to provide quality public services. Now, in the face of federal attacks and cuts, our state must act to raise progressive revenue.
Establish the Child Care Workforce Standards Board
Fiscal impact: Eligible for workers comp funding, NOT general fund.
Child care is delivered in thousands of worksites across the state, making it difficult to improve standards and meet workforce needs consistently. The Child Care Workforce Standards Board, like similar boards in Nevada, Minnesota, or California, will bring together workers, employers, parents, and relevant agencies to investigate issues like staffing issues and recruitment, worker voices on the job, and adequacy of wages and other compensation. The Board will make recommendations about how to strengthen this field, especially as the Legislature looks to expand family eligibility in the future.
Codify DCYF’s current practices for conducting a Cost of Quality Care survey
Fiscal impact: Believed to revenue neutral
DCYF is currently conducting a Cost of Quality Care survey, as directed by the 2025 Legislature. This bill codifies existing practice and ensures the state is capturing the right metrics needed to understand the true cost of quality child care.
Streamlining Regulations in Child Care and Early Learning
Fiscal impact: Not yet determined
Pursue near-term operations and licensing improvements by addressing a variety of WACs, departmental policy, and building code inspections processes that delay or add cost to child care operations.
Fund Competitive Wages for Education Support Professionals
Fiscal impact: Not yet determined
Paraprofessionals, food service workers, bus drivers, janitors, school office workers and other K-12 classified staff make it possible for schools to operate. But chronic shortages and constant turnover in these critical roles are symptoms of low pay resulting from lack of state funding.
Expand and protect the rights of workers to organize in Washington
Fiscal impact: Not yet determined
In 2025, the National Labor Relations Board lacks a quorum to conduct business and the Fifth Circuit has ruled the Board itself unconstitutional. This represents a significant threat to worker rights and ability to unionize. Washington must expand and protect worker organizing by creating new pathways for worker unions to be recognized, and ensuring they can bargain over job impacts including AI.