by UAW | Nov 5, 2019 | Membership Updates
Vote! Ballots Due 8pm Today Today is the last day to vote in this year’s critical Seattle City Council election! Ballots are due — either in a ballot drop box or postmarked — by 8pm. This is a critical election in determining how Seattle runs...
by UAW | Nov 1, 2019 | Membership Updates
Results of Paid Family Medical Leave Ratification Vote The ratification vote on the Paid Family Medical Leave tentative agreement has closed, and members have voted at a rate of 95.4% (439 yes, 21 no) to approve making this change to our collective bargaining...
by UAW | Oct 25, 2019 | Membership Updates
Elections by the Few or by the Many? We’re seeing a disturbing pattern in recent years as small numbers of ultra-wealthy donors pour money into defeating key pro-worker, pro-science candidates and initiatives. For instance, in 2018, nine oil companies alone...
by UAW | Oct 24, 2019 | Membership Updates
Earlier this year, we filed unfair labor practice charges and a grievance when the University began unilaterally charging premiums to ASEs and Postdocs for the new Washington State Paid Family Medical Leave (PFML) program, and not fulfilling their agreement to re-open...
by UAW | Oct 17, 2019 | Membership Updates
Taking Action *Now* to Prepare for Bargaining At last week’s general membership meeting, we held a discussion about preparing for both Academic Student Employee (ASE) and Postdoc 2020-2021 contract campaigns starting now. We decided that, in the next month,...
by UAW | Oct 9, 2019 | Membership Updates
First Membership Meeting of the Year As a reminder, our first membership meeting of the academic year will be tomorrow, Thursday 10/10 from 5:30-6:30pm in Social Work Building 026. Next academic year, both Academic Student Employees and Postdocs will be...
