by UAW | Jul 17, 2019 | Membership Updates
Through our Political Work Group, members identified important issues – investment in education, worker protections, housing affordability, transportation, race and equity, and climate justice – assembled questionnaires, reviewed candidate responses and their records,...
by UAW | Jul 15, 2019 | Elections
Dear UAW Member, The nomination period for the open steward, unit, and executive board positions has now closed. All nominations were uncontested, so the following list of new stewards and committee members has been elected automatically. Congratulations! Postdoc...
by UAW | Jul 3, 2019 | Elections
Dear UAW Member, We’re at an exciting moment in our Union’s history, as with the ratification of the Postdocs’ contract, our Local Union now includes two units of workers: a Unit of 900 Postdocs in addition to a Unit of 5,000 Academic Student Employees (ASEs). At the...
by UAW | Jul 2, 2019 | Membership Updates
Dear UAW Member, Last summer, our Union worked alongside campus Unions, community groups, and progressive allies to push UW to provide a free U-PASS for all. We succeeded and won a free U-PASS for all ASEs (and Postdocs, as well). Recently, we learned that the...
by UAW | Jun 26, 2019 | Membership Updates
Dear UAW Member, As a reminder, there will be a special membership meeting tomorrow, Thursday, June 27th at 5:30 p.m. in HSB T-733 to consider an amendment to the Local Union bylaws. The proposed amendment, written to reflect the newly formed Postdoc Unit, was...
