UAW 4121 is the union of over 8,000 graduate and undergraduate Academic Student Employees (Research Assistants, Teaching Assistants, Staff Assistants, Readers, Graders, Tutors), Postdocs, and Research Staff (Research Scientists, Research Engineers, Research Coordinators/Consultants) at the University of Washington.

Thanks to 25 years of collective action and strong membership participation, UAW 4121 members have been able to win major improvements – both to our working conditions at UW, and to our living conditions more broadly – on issues including wages, health care, equity and anti-discrimination, housing, international scholar issues, climate change, childcare and family leave, and much more.

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