Vicky Smith
Project Help Director 

Vicky runs the Project HELP Program, a cooperative effort between the Washington State Labor Council, the Washington state business community and the state Department of Labor and Industries. The program's goal is to facilitate effective communication and dispute resolution between workers and employers involved in workers' compensation claims. She conducts an annual conference and countless workshops-by-request all over the state devoted to explaining our workers' comp system to labor and management representatives. Along with Claims Specialist Viona Latschaw, Vicky's mission is to ensure that all of these stakeholders understand their rights and responsibilities under the law. Contact Project HELP at 1-800-255-9752.

Before joining the WSLC in 1990, Vicky was a union representative for Textile Processors Local 24 in Seattle for four years, and for United Food and Commercial Workers Local 555 in Tigard, Ore., for the seven years prior. She attended the University of Oregon and Portland State University, as well as Vanderbilt University's Workers' Compensation College and arbitration training at the George Meany Center for Labor Studies.

Vicky and her husband, Eric, live in West Seattle.

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