LOCAL 519

TO PROVIDE our members with superior service in negotiating contracts. Ensuring ongoing improvement to their wages and working conditions by displaying professionalism in our actions characterized by the values of respect, equity and uncompromised integrity... Public Safety Employees Union 519 was chartered in April of 1962 and it was the direct result of the efforts of a handful of employees of the King County Sheriff's Office in Seattle, Washington. In 1962 the Department was primarily serving the rural community of King County and was directed by an elected Sheriff. Partisan politics was a definite factor in not only the size of the Department but an individual employee's progression within the Department. Civil Service was created to correct that problem and was enacted by the voters in 1959. However, the effects of a well entrenched political patronage system was not eradicated immediately and there was an urgent need for collective bargaining and a group effort to improve the..

Primary location: Seattle United States