Bargaining Summary from March 15th

Against the backdrop of the fantastic win that UW Postdocs and ASEs made possible today and throughout yesterday’s historic direct action, today we saw some incremental progress on a key issue in bargaining.  UW Administration responded to our comprehensive...

3/15/18 Bargaining Summary

Today we continued discussing issues concerning our anti-discrimination proposals to jointly develop sexual harassment and anti-discrimination trainings specifically geared for ASEs’ needs and positionality. Our proposal includes creating such trainings jointly with...

Bargaining Summary, 3/9/18

Today marked the date we agreed upon with the University during our first bargaining session to make all initial proposals for our new contract. We brought proposals on Wages, Tuition & Fee Waivers, and Health Insurance to finish up all of our initial proposals....

Reminder: Membership Meeting Tomorrow

Our monthly membership meeting is tomorrow, Thursday 3/8 from 5:30pm-7pm in EEB 105. The proposed agenda for the meeting is as follows: Approve Agenda Approve Minutes and Board Actions Solidarity Actions Postdoc Campaign Update Bargaining Update Bargaining Organizing...

Bargaining Summary 3/1/18

Today we continued negotiating over “non-economic” issues. We began by going through some of our union’s requests for information in greater detail, and then the UW Administration presented what they characterized as “most” of the proposals they will bring on...