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ASE Bargaining Straw Poll // Membership Meeting // Board of Regents Action // & More
Action Needed! ASE Bargaining Straw Poll Last Friday, the last day of our contract, UW offered us their “last, best, and final” offer. Since then, members have been engaging in substantial discussion about the offer and our options for next steps -- including in...
Contract expiration, most recent proposals, and next steps
Please join an all-members May Day meeting on Saturday at 2pm! RSVP for this meeting now, and join the Slack to discuss and prepare with other members, including in the #questions channel. 4/30 Bargaining Summary Today was our last scheduled day of bargaining and it...
4-29 Bargaining Summary
Below you’ll find summaries of proposals passed today. As negotiations continue tomorrow, we will need to discuss our next steps and how to respond to any further offers from the UW administration. Please join an all-members May Day meeting on Saturday at 2pm! RSVP...
4/28 Bargaining Summary // RSVP for May Day meeting
We had our tenth bargaining session with the UW administration today. Below, you’ll find summaries of the proposals passed today. In addition, you can find the full text of every proposal passed on the Proposals Tracking page, and a quick guide on where some of the...
4/27 Bargaining Summary // Important Membership Meeting Wed 4/28
We had our ninth bargaining session with the UW administration today. In addition to the checking out the below updates, we hope to see a huge turn out to tomorrow’s special membership meeting at 5pm to discuss and continue building power as we move into the final...
4/26 Bargaining Summary // Important Membership Meeting Wed 4/28
Below you’ll find summaries of every proposal passed today, as well as important info about a critical membership meeting this Wednesday. In addition, you can find full text of every proposal passed on the Proposals Tracking page, and a quick guide on where some of...
4/23 Bargaining Summary: Action Needed to Win a Fair Contract!
Today in bargaining the UW administration presented offers with extremely minimal changes compared to previous sessions (see detailed summary below). They continued to propose no wage increase in the first year of the contract, they continued to refuse to move on our...
4/19 Bargaining Summary
We had our sixth bargaining session with the UW administration today. Management made proposals on a number of articles but maintained either current contract language or previous proposals on a number of others. We need to ensure members’ needs are being met in our...
Now to Rally for a Fair Contract! // ASE bargaining // UW accreditation forum // Postdoc childcare fund // and more!
ASE Bargaining Community Rally We are getting closer and closer to the expiration of the ASE contract on April 30th! While we have been able to make some small progress on our proposals to improve equity at UW, and to improve recruitment and retention of...
4/12 Bargaining Summary
We met with UW administration again today for our fifth bargaining session. After some discussion in the morning, admin presented a package of counterproposals that included several articles we’ve reached tentative agreement on (refer below), as well as a new proposal...