Library staff start to negotiate
The newly organized King County Library employees have begun negotiations for a new contract with their employer.
The 550 employees voted in December last year to join Council 2 in the union’s biggest organizing win ever.
Deadline for Jerry Clark scholarship is July 1
Applications are being accepted for the Jerry Clark memorial scholarship, which awards $10,000 annually for a student majoring in political science for his or her junior and senior years of study.
The program is available to children or financially dependent grandchildren of afscme members who are now political science majors in their sophomore year of study and are enrolled in a full-time four-year degree program at any accredited college or university and have a grade point average of 3.0 or above.
The recipient also has the opportunity to serve as an intern at the International Union headquarters in the Political Action department.
The deadline for applications is July 1. Application forms are available on the AFSCME Web site.
Clark served as Director of the International Union’s Political Action Department for nearly 20 years The scholarship was established to honor his memory after he died in 1990.
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