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...
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...
