Transit is experiencing unprecedented budget challenges.  Managers are scrambling to preserve services in part by attacking the wages of their own employees.  How much of the current budget woes should be borne by transit workers and how much by the public who pay for their services seems to be the debate of the day.   Read More > EMPLOYEE LOGIN Username: Password: User name and password to access secured area of this website is posted on Union bulletin boards.

  Local 587 is an association of

  men and women organized to

  maintain our rights and improve

  our wages, hours and working

  conditions primarily through

  collective bargaining with our

  employers.

  Local 587 is part of the

  Amalgamated Transit Union,

  AFL-CIO. We are the largest

  ATU local on the West Coast

  with about 4000 active and 300

  retired members in King, Clallam

  and Jefferson counties.

  Although the majority of our

  members are transit operators,

  we have approximately 800

  members working in over 80

  craft occupations.