by UAW | Dec 2, 2019 | Membership Updates
WA State Paid Family Medical Leave Starts January 1 Our state’s new Paid Family Medical Leave Program will begin on January 1, 2020. If you are considering taking leave for any of the qualifying reasons, please be sure to notify your supervisor and department...
by UAW | Dec 2, 2019 | Membership Updates
Deadline for Applying: December 16, 2019 UAW 4121 is the union representing 6,000 academic workers (Postdocs and Academic Student Employees) at all three campuses of the University of Washington. We are seeking to hire a full-time position dedicated to membership...
by UAW | Nov 22, 2019 | Membership Updates
NASEM summit on preventing harassment This week, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) held a public summit at UW on preventing sexual harassment in higher education that featured UAW 4121 members, including in panel discussions...
by UAW | Nov 13, 2019 | Membership Updates
Dear UAW Member, At tomorrow’s monthly membership meeting, we’ll discuss plans to fight the proposal by Trump’s National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to eliminate collective bargaining rights for academic student employees at private universities. At a time when an...
by UAW | Nov 13, 2019 | Membership Updates
In response to the National Labor Relations Board’s attempt to restrict the rights of student employees to form unions, we are encouraging members to submit comments registering that student employees are, in fact, employees. The proposed rule would establish that...
by UAW | Nov 7, 2019 | Membership Updates
November Membership Meeting Our monthly membership meeting will be Thursday 11/14 from 5:30-6:30pm in location TBD (somewhere on Seattle campus). The proposed agenda for the meeting is as follows: Approve Agenda Approve Minutes 2021 Contract Campaign Organizing...
