Email Digest
MLK Day of Action; Political Endorsements Meeting
Monday, 1/18/16: Day of Action Join UAW and other union members Monday in discussions and a rally and march as part of the MLK Day of action. Workshops begin at 9:30 a.m., and include discussions on minimum wage, #blacklivesmatter, anti-islamophobia and climate...
Meeting Reminder; Health Care Updates; Direct Action Training
Thursday, January 14th: 5:00 p.m. Membership Meeting in Loew Hall 106 Our January regular membership meeting is one week away. In addition to hearing reports about contract enforcement and expansion work on campus, this meeting will invite discussion about broad...
Straw Poll: US President
The UAW International Union has requested a straw poll of the preferences for the 2016 US presidential election of UAW Local 4121's membership. The poll will be open from Tuesday 12/15 at 1 pm to Thursday 12/17 5pm. Please vote here & circulate the link widely on...
Contact Your Senators: Oppose Discriminatory Visa Measure!
As you know, thousands of international students like me are proud members and elected leaders of UAW Local 4121. Our union has a history of speaking up against discrimination in all its forms. Today we sent letters to Washington Senators Murray and Cantwell, urging...
Reminder: Membership Meeting Next Thursday, 12/10
Don’t forget: our regular monthly membership meeting will take place next Thursday, 12/10 at 5:00 p.m. in Loew Hall 106. The agenda will include work being done by individual members and work groups on enforcing their rights and taking action to support campus and...
Tacoma Students Deserve The Same Minimum Wage
Sign Now: Equal Pay for Student Workers in Tacoma! Earlier this academic year, President Ana Mari Cauce announced that UW Seattle workers – including student workers – would receive a minimum wage increase to $13/hour in 2016 and $15/hour in 2017. UW Bothell quickly...
Solidarity action with our colleagues at the University of California
UAW locals 2865 and 5810 (who collectively represent over 20,000 teaching assistants, tutors, readers, and postdocs at the University of California) are demanding change to the UC's ineffective sexual harassment and sexual assault policies. Their most recent demand...
Your feedback needed: GAIP survey
GAIP-eligible student-employees: Please take this short survey now The UAW 4121 Health Care Work Group is seeking feedback about the recent claims reprocessing and UAW Members’ experiences with the Graduate Appointee Insurance Plan (GAIP) so far this year. Please...
International Transgender Day of Remembrance
Dear community, As some of you may be aware, today, November 20th, will mark the seventeenth annual observance of an international Transgender Day of Remembrance. First organized by Gwendolyn Ann Smith in honor of Rita Hester, an African-American trans woman murdered...
Faculty Unionization at UW
Faculty at the University of Washington have begun a campaign to form a union, with help from SEIU 925 (the union representing over 20,000 education-based employees state-wide and helping to organize faculty at Seattle University and Antioch). If this drive is...