Email Digest

  Taking Action *Now* to Prepare for Bargaining At last week’s general membership meeting, we held a discussion about preparing for both Academic Student Employee (ASE) and Postdoc 2020-2021 contract campaigns starting now. We decided that, in the next month,...

  First Membership Meeting of the Year As a reminder, our first membership meeting of the academic year will be tomorrow, Thursday 10/10 from 5:30-6:30pm in Social Work Building 026. Next academic year, both Academic Student Employees and Postdocs will be...

  First Membership Meeting of the Year Our monthly membership meeting will be Thursday 10/10 from 5:30-7pm in Social Work Building 026. The proposed agenda for the meeting is as follows: Approve Agenda Approve Minutes Welcome Building Towards 2021 Contract...

  Welcome! Membership Meeting & Trans Resource Fair Welcome to the hundreds of new ASEs joining the union and welcome back to all the members returning this fall. We hope that your next year is successful and enjoyable and we want to be a part of helping make...

  Global Climate Strike TODAY “As we enter this new geologic era, youth around the world are raising their voices to heed the warnings of science and seize this crucial window of opportunity to stop the escalation of global warming. By joining young people on...

  Climate Strike Over the past year, the global youth-led movement for climate justice has changed the national conversation about the climate crisis, demanding that politicians reject fossil fuel campaign contributions and support a bold and equitable transition...

Through our Political Work Group, members identified important issues – investment in education, worker protections, housing affordability, transportation, race and equity, and climate justice – assembled questionnaires, reviewed candidate responses and their records,...

  Call for Aid for Detained Student Waleed Salem, a national citizen of Egypt, is a PhD candidate in political science at the University of Washington. His dissertation fieldwork took him back to Cairo, where he was arrested and detained for 200 days without...

  WA State Primary Election TODAY If you are a registered WA voter and have not yet returned your mail-in ballot please make a plan to vote today. Voting for local candidates who share our values and will fight for workers is an essential way for our union to...

Special interest group targets leading City Council Candidate Emily Myers with extreme ads and scare tactics Dear UAW Member, In recent days, a Political Action Committee called “People for Seattle” sent mailers to D4 voters urging voters in District 4 (U District,...