Governance

The AFT Washington Bylaws, along with the Standing Rules, Legal Defense Fund, and COPE Bylaws, are the principal guiding document of the state federation. You can read the 2025-2027 bylaws here.

AFT Washington delegates to our Biennial Convention, held in odd-numbered years, are asked to consider resolutions that will guide the state federation's work for the next biennium. As such, resolutions form a crucial part of our work, and we encourage any interested member or local to contact your Union Organizing Representative to get more information about writing strong resolutions. In addition, we offer periodic workshops on resolution writing.

You can read the 2025-2027 resolutions here. Please note that this document will be updated if resolutions are passed outside of the Convention.

The AFT Washington Executive Board has adopted a Code of Conduct that is in effect for all AFT Washington events. The Code of Conduct will be made available to all participants. Contacts for concerns about code violations will be identified at each event.

If you have any questions about the Code of Conduct, please contact us at aftwashington@aftwa.org.

The most recent revision date is February 2026. You can read the Code of Conduct here.

AFT Washington collects member contact data from a variety of sources.

1. When you join a local, you must provide some contact information, such as included in this example membership application. Your contact information is added to AFT's national database, Connect. We are able to access your provided information through that database. This is the source of most of our contact lists, such as the Weekly Update newsletter.

2. If you register for an event with us or sign up for an AFT Washington newsletter, we may update our contact records with your provided information, and we will use your provided information to contact you.

3. We do not collect user information through this website other than by providing a signup form for our political newsletter, the Legisletter. By providing that information, you are requesting to receive that newsletter. Any additional sign up methods that appear on this website are controlled by AFT national, not AFT Washington, who sometimes syndicates signups through the sidebar.

If at any time AFT Washington contacts you through a channel you do not want to be contacted, you can request removal by contacting Briseida Sanchez at bsanchez AT aftwa.org or Cortney Marabetta at cmarabetta AT aftwa.org. Note that this only opts you out of AFT Washington communications. You can also opt out of AFT Washington's emailed newsletters through the unsubscribe link included in each email, and you can opt out of AFT Washington texts by replying STOP to a message.