Unionized workers at the Department of Children Youth and Families (DCYF) who aimed to oust their boss, Secretary Ross Hunter, failed to collect enough signatures to move forward with their effort to urge Gov. Jay Inslee to fire and replace him. The Washington Federation of State Employees (WFSE), a union that represents 2,800 DCYF employees and thousands of other state workers, confirmed Tuesday that their months-long “no-confidence” vote against Hunter ended. Leaders said they collected more than 1,600 signatures from DCYF employees who supported Hunter’s replacement – a couple hundred votes shy of the two-thirds majority of their membership base they required to call for his resignation. Despite the failure of the “no-confidence” petition, which workers planned to deliver to Inslee, WFSE leaders called their campaign a success. “I feel like we have the agency’s attention now, so I’m hopeful,” said Jeanette Obelcz, who chairs the DCYF policy committee for WFSE and also works as a Child Protective Services supervisor at DCYF. “But I would definitely say that (Hunter) dodged a bullet.” Read more: https://www.king5.com/article/news/investigations/no-confidence-vote-against-washington-child-welfare-leader-fails-to-pass/281-8b8256a1-fd51-4e78-8e3e-a3b1aff0a578