Email Digest

Speak Up for Research Funding! Last week UAW members in higher education around the country started a nationwide campaign to defend research funding against proposed cuts by President Trump’s budget. Today at the Clean and Fair Economy Summit in Olympia, a delegation...

Dear friends and UAW4121 members, UAW4121 is honored to be working closely with a broad coalition of Washington organizations to usher in a fair, clean energy economy and truly address carbon pollution in our state. This month we stepped into a formal role with the...

Resources and Upcoming Meeting: Fight Back Against Attack on DACA Earlier this week we provided some resources for those impacted by the Trump administration announcement to rescind DACA.  As we continue to work with coalition partners in the Washington Immigrant...

This morning, the Trump administration again attacked communities of color with the decision to end the DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) program. Make no mistake, this is related to the travel ban, and another example of Trump’s racist, xenophobic agenda....

Our union's climate justice working group has been working with labor communities in King County and across the state to build conversation around climate change and a just transition to a clean energy economy. A key partner in this work is the Washington State...

Dear UAW Member, Donald Trump's proposed federal budget is soon coming up for debate in Congress. As if his abhorrent actions around immigration (the travel ban), and his recent efforts to sanitize the racist actions of white supremacists in Charlottesville haven’t...

Over the weekend, we all watched as white supremacists marched across the University of Virginia campus spreading hate and violence in Charlottesville. We have seen smaller scale incidents here in Seattle, where hate groups have marched in Seattle and been given...

Through our political workgroup, 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,...

Dear 4121 member, Through our political workgroup, members identified important issues - investment in education, worker protections, housing affordability, transportation, race and equity, and climate justice - assembled questionnaires, reviewed candidate responses...

As you’ve probably heard, state lawmakers narrowly avoided a partial government shutdown during its third special session.  At the last minute, Paid Family Leave was introduced and passed!  Along with this positive outcome, I-1552, the anti-trans bathroom bill, was...