by UAW 4121 | Jan 5, 2023 | Membership Updates, PD bargaining updates
Bargaining Update, Action Planning Meeting Tomorrow Please RSVP to an important meeting on Friday 1/6 at 12pm to meet with other Postdocs and Research Scientists and discuss building collective action needed to win a fair contract. Following our last bargaining...
by UAW 4121 | Dec 23, 2022 | Membership Updates, PD bargaining updates
We were bargaining with UW Admin on Wednesday and Thursday for the last two sessions before the end of the year. We are making progress on all aspects of the contract but still have some ways to go and continue to see some concerning, arbitrary divisions in the way...
by UAW 4121 | Dec 20, 2022 | Membership Updates, PD bargaining updates
12/15 Mass meeting recap Last Thursday, hundreds of Postdocs and Research Scientists & Engineers came together in groups across campus to sit in on bargaining between management and the RSE bargaining committee. In this powerful show of solidarity, we demonstrated...
by UAW 4121 | Dec 7, 2022 | Membership Updates, PD bargaining updates
Today was our sixth Postdoc Bargaining session and our bargaining team has made proposals on 16 different articles of our contract. We’ve reached tentative agreement with UW admin on two articles, and have only received counter-proposals from them on two other...
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...
