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Thursday 12pm Red Square Board Of Regents Meeting!
Action: Thursday 12-12:45 Rally at Red Square 12:50-1:30 ASE Comments at Meeting On Thursday the UW Board of Regents are meeting on campus. This board makes major decisions for the university -- including major financial decisions. This is an opportunity for the...
May 8th Bargaining Summary
Today we were joined once again by the mediator, and we bargained with the University for almost 15 hours. University Admin appeared to get the message that members have loudly and vehemently rejected their last, best and final offer from April 30th, and they made...
Increasing Student Support, Regents Meeting Thursday
Student Support Student support for our bargaining demands is growing! Yesterday, Husky 100 delivered a letter to President Cauce supporting our demands, and Huskies United posted this video expressing their support. These messages of solidarity are in addition to...
May Membership Meeting, 5/10 @ 5:30, GOW 201
Our monthly membership meeting will be on Thursday 5/10 from 5:30-7pm in Gowen 201. The proposed agenda for the meeting is as follows: Approve Agenda Minutes Bargaining Update Postdoc Update Proposed Bylaws Amendments (regarding stewards and regarding gender pronouns...
UW Last Offer Rejected! Undergraduate Student Support! Organize a Strike Prep Meeting!
By a margin of 2272 to 196, UAW Local 4121 members have overwhelmingly rejected the last contract offer that the UW Administration made on April 30th. It included: A 2% per year wage increase, but a major takeaway that would enable UW to impose any new fees or...
Bargaining Continues, Next Steps
Yesterday, University administration failed to meet the demands of UAW 4121 members for a fair and equitable contract that provides protections and crucial compensations for the 4,500 graduate and undergraduate TAs, RAs, Readers, Graders, and Tutors across UW on the...
400 MEMBERS REMOVED FROM BARGAINING BY POLICE
Bargaining came to a dramatic halt tonight. About 400 ASEs turned out for today’s bargaining session to show unity in demanding a fair and equitable contract. In response, the university administration barred the building doors to prevent more members from entering...
Political Support and Union Solidarity
In a separate major action at 12:30pm today, a delegation of UAW4121 members, elected officials, and unions including UAW 4121, SEIU925, WFSE 1488, SEIU 1199, AFT, Faculty Forward, and the Martin Luther King Labor Council delivered a letter to UW President Ana Mari...
Important Bargaining Update
Moments ago, we passed the following proposal to the university administration in an effort to reach an agreement with them before our current contract expires at midnight tonight. The Bargaining Committee has and continues to be invested to reaching a reasonable and...
Bargaining Caucus TODAY 4PM
BARGAINING CAUCUS OF MEMBERSHIP TODAY AT 4:00PM! Our contract expires tonight. We are prepared to negotiate as long as it takes to secure a fair contract for all ASEs. But we need your help. We are asking all available ASEs to attend a bargaining caucus today at...