by webmaster | Dec 14, 2015 | Membership Updates
As you know, thousands of international students like me are proud members and elected leaders of UAW Local 4121. Our union has a history of speaking up against discrimination in all its forms. Today we sent letters to Washington Senators Murray and Cantwell, urging...
by UAW 4121 | Dec 4, 2015 | Membership Updates
Don’t forget: our regular monthly membership meeting will take place next Thursday, 12/10 at 5:00 p.m. in Loew Hall 106. The agenda will include work being done by individual members and work groups on enforcing their rights and taking action to support campus and...
by webmaster | Dec 1, 2015 | Membership Updates
Sign Now: Equal Pay for Student Workers in Tacoma! Earlier this academic year, President Ana Mari Cauce announced that UW Seattle workers – including student workers – would receive a minimum wage increase to $13/hour in 2016 and $15/hour in 2017. UW Bothell quickly...
by UAW 4121 | Nov 24, 2015 | Membership Updates
UAW locals 2865 and 5810 (who collectively represent over 20,000 teaching assistants, tutors, readers, and postdocs at the University of California) are demanding change to the UC’s ineffective sexual harassment and sexual assault policies. Their most recent...
by UAW 4121 | Nov 23, 2015 | Health Care Working Group, Membership Updates
GAIP-eligible student-employees: Please take this short survey now The UAW 4121 Health Care Work Group is seeking feedback about the recent claims reprocessing and UAW Members’ experiences with the Graduate Appointee Insurance Plan (GAIP) so far this year. Please...
by webmaster | Nov 20, 2015 | Membership Updates, Trans-Equity
Dear community, As some of you may be aware, today, November 20th, will mark the seventeenth annual observance of an international Transgender Day of Remembrance. First organized by Gwendolyn Ann Smith in honor of Rita Hester, an African-American trans woman murdered...
