The Worker Center is a division of the M. L. King County Labor Council. Their mission is to increase the Council's capacity to carry out initiatives that generate high skill, high wage jobs, improve workforce and training systems, better the delivery of services for dislocated workers, and build alliances with community and environmental organizations.

Core Programs

Economic Development and Public Policy
The main focus of economic development and policy activities is on retaining and promoting high wage jobs. Policy projects are at the direction of the executive secretary. In addition, they coordinate the Apollo Alliance of Washington, a coalition of unions, environmental groups, businesses and community-based organizations convened to pursue a statewide agenda of investment in renewable energy and energy efficiency to create good jobs, achieve energy independence, revitalize underserved and rural communities and improve our environment.

King County Reemployment Center
This program organizes the community's response to plant closures and mass layoffs. It works with community partners to set up labor-management readjustment committees at the sites of employers as the best way to get information and services to people before they are on their last paycheck. The RSC publishes the Job Seekers Update, which is a guide to free and low cost job search assistance in King County. (See attachment below for the most recent Job Seekers Update!)

The Trades Mentor Network (TMN)
This program aims to increase retention of women and people of color in state-certified apprenticeship programs. It currently operates Jobsite Apprentice Mentoring, which matches trades mentors with apprentices on major construction projects.

King County Community and Technical College Labor Liaison
This program provides services designed to foster and facilitate authentic partnerships between the colleges and the M. L. King County Labor Council. The primary goal of this work is to improve the quality of education and training programs through joint labor-college activities.

Contact Patrick Neville for more information.

Worker Center
2800 First Avenue, Room 252
Seattle, WA 98121
(206) 441-8408

2010 Summer Job Seekers Update.pdf