Email Digest

  WA State Paid Family Medical Leave Starts January 1 Our state’s new Paid Family Medical Leave Program will begin on January 1, 2020. If you are considering taking leave for any of the qualifying reasons, please be sure to notify your supervisor and department...

Deadline for Applying: December 16, 2019 UAW 4121 is the union representing 6,000 academic workers (Postdocs and Academic Student Employees) at all three campuses of the University of Washington.  We are seeking to hire a full-time position dedicated to membership...

  NASEM summit on preventing harassment This week, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) held a public summit at UW on preventing sexual harassment in higher education that featured UAW 4121 members, including in panel discussions...

Dear UAW Member, At tomorrow’s monthly membership meeting, we’ll discuss plans to fight the proposal by Trump’s National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to eliminate collective bargaining rights for academic student employees at private universities. At a time when an...

In response to the National Labor Relations Board’s attempt to restrict the rights of student employees to form unions, we are encouraging members to submit comments registering that student employees are, in fact, employees. The proposed rule would establish that...

  November Membership Meeting Our monthly membership meeting will be Thursday 11/14 from 5:30-6:30pm in location TBD (somewhere on Seattle campus). The proposed agenda for the meeting is as follows: Approve Agenda Approve Minutes 2021 Contract Campaign Organizing...

  Vote! Ballots Due 8pm Today Today is the last day to vote in this year’s critical Seattle City Council election! Ballots are due -- either in a ballot drop box or postmarked -- by 8pm. This is a critical election in determining how Seattle runs -- whether it’s...

  Results of Paid Family Medical Leave Ratification Vote The ratification vote on the Paid Family Medical Leave tentative agreement has closed, and members have voted at a rate of 95.4% (439 yes, 21 no) to approve making this change to our collective bargaining...

  Elections by the Few or by the Many? We’re seeing a disturbing pattern in recent years as small numbers of ultra-wealthy donors pour money into defeating key pro-worker, pro-science candidates and initiatives. For instance, in 2018, nine oil companies alone...

Earlier this year, we filed unfair labor practice charges and a grievance when the University began unilaterally charging premiums to ASEs and Postdocs for the new Washington State Paid Family Medical Leave (PFML) program, and not fulfilling their agreement to re-open...