Roughly 75 King County workers packed themselves into the lobby of the county’s downtown Seattle office building Tuesday to protest a return-to-office mandate.
The mandate, which would require county employees to be in-office three days a week, was first introduced more than a year ago, but was never fully enforced. In January, King County Executive Girmay Zahilay announced he would impose this mandate once departments had fully developed return-to-office plans.
The protest was organized by the PROTEC17 union. Union leaders said employees have worked remotely for years without issues and that the mandate lacks clear reasoning…