by UAW 4121 | Nov 21, 2022 | Membership Updates, PD bargaining updates
Our organizing is working! Just days after last week’s mass meeting, where nearly 200 Postdocs & Research Scientists came together to discuss bargaining and what it will take to win fair contracts, today UW Admin made significant movement towards us with a...
by UAW 4121 | Nov 19, 2022 | Membership Updates, PD bargaining updates
Thank you to the ~200 of you who were able to join yesterday either in real life or via Zoom for our Mass Meeting! It is energizing to be in solidarity with you all. The main takeaway: In order to win strong contracts without continued delays, it will take every...
by UAW 4121 | Nov 8, 2022 | Membership Updates, PD bargaining updates
11/17 Mass Meeting RSVP: https://forms.gle/8Q1PMRyGKPaSjP9UA Next week (Thursday 11/17 at 12:00pm in HSB D-209, Turner Auditorium) we are holding an important mass meeting along with our recently unionized Research Scientist/Engineer colleagues to discuss strategies...
by UAW 4121 | Nov 1, 2022 | Membership Updates, PD bargaining updates
10/21 Bargaining Recap Last Friday morning, we held our first meeting with the UW Administration bargaining team to negotiate the successor to our current contract. We discussed the urgent need to improve our benefits, wages, and protections as outlined in our Initial...
by UAW | Mar 1, 2021 | Membership Updates, PD bargaining updates
Our new contract has been ratified! Our new contract has been ratified by members! This week, by a 410-6 majority, members overwhelmingly voted to adopt the new contract, which will now go into effect. This new contract (pdf summary) makes substantial improvements to...
by UAW | Feb 17, 2021 | Membership Updates, PD bargaining updates
We’ve reached a tentative agreement on the Postdoc Collective bargaining agreement! Our bargaining committee unanimously recommends acceptance of the tentative agreement and a vote to ratify. Through our contract we’ve secured some important gains and set the...
