Washington’s largest state-employees union says that it’s fighting back against “unpaid work” being performed on behalf of the state agency that enforces labor standards.

In a news release this week, the Washington Federation of State Employees (WFSE) claims that unionized interpreters have yet to be paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for services rendered to injured workers.

It’s an issue that the union asserts the Department of Labor & Industries (L&I) hasn’t yet made right — but the state agency contends that it’s working to do just that.

Many interpreters are now hesitant to accept further jobs at the Department of Labor & Industries, WFSE says.

“According to L&I , ‘Our state has long strived to make sure workers are paid fairly regardless of who they are,’” WFSE wrote in

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