Email Digest

Critical Event for International Student Workers Thursday (10/15) 4:30 p.m. Loew Hall 106 Recently a US District Court issued a ruling overturning the 17-month OPT extension for international students in STEM fields. This ruling will severely curtail future employment...

Tomorrow (Wednesday October 14) join with other UAW members and activists from throughout the state for a People's Climate March in downtown Seattle. See today's coverage in the Seattle P-I. As student workers, many of us are involved on and off campus in addressing...

Hope you can make it to our monthly membership meeting this evening (Thursday, 10/8) at 5pm in Gowen 201. We'll discuss current projects and hear action plans from work groups, as well as discuss ways in which members are working to build power and enforce their...

Orientations Welcome new UAW 4121 members! Over 850 new Academic Student Employees signed up for membership at department and hiring unit orientations these past two weeks, at a rate of nearly 90%. In addition 150 people indicated an interest in getting even more...

Building Fee Waiver We have heard concerns from many members that the building fee is not being waived properly. To give some context, this fee had never before been waived until our recent contract negotiations with the University. And in the contract we ratified,...

Come to Our Start of the Year Social! Next Thursday (10/1), join with other UAW members to kick off the year at Big Time Brewery from 5:30-7:00 p.m. Get your free drink, share some snacks with other members from across campus, and learn a bit about what’s happening...

Today (Friday, 9/18) we joined with other unions on campus, along with elected leaders from UW student government, to demand that all workers in all UW locations – both those represented by unions and those not represented – receive no less than $15 an hour starting...

Minimum Wage and UW We were recently contacted by UW to have further discussions about raising the minimum wage in the coming two years, and this Friday (9/18) will meet with UW representatives in coalition with other campus unions to discuss the University’s ideas....

Today K-12 educators in Seattle Public Schools are making the difficult and courageous choice to walk off their jobs until the Seattle School District offers fair terms for a new collective bargaining agreement. Whether or not we have children in Seattle Public School...