Email Digest
Bargaining Update; UW’s Direction to Post Grades
On Friday (4/25) we met again with UW in negotiations. This meeting was wholly focused on health insurance, and the question of which benefits the parties could agree were part of the current GAIP under the collective bargaining agreement. You can read the full...
Strike Vote Passes; Bargaining Updates; Mobilizations
With historically large turnout, a majority of all 4,000 Academic Student Employees (ASEs) at the University of Washington have voted to authorize the union’s bargaining committee to call a strike if circumstances justify. Out of 2,258 total votes cast, 90% voted...
Resolution on Veolia
At the membership meeting on April 16, 2015, members unanimously passed the following resolution: WHEREAS, TransDev, formerly named Veolia, is a contractor providing ACCESS paratransit service, and remains partially funded by Veolia, WHEREAS, the French-based...
Action Today: Tell the Deans Their Intimidation Letter Has *Failed
When/Where: Today at 11 AM, Outside the Communications Building On Friday, UW academic student employees (ASEs) received a letter from Deans Eaton and Taylor. With thinly-veiled threats, the Deans attempted to intimidate and misinform ASEs about UAW 4121's ongoing...
2 Steps Forward, 1 Step Back
Here are the highlights from bargaining this week (see the full update): Victory: The university agreed to proposals on Academic Excellence, making explicit in the contract the right for an ASE to meet with their supervisor about changes in their assignment that may...
Victory – $11/hour
The University announced today that they are going to raise the wages of all student workers to $11. This comes on the heels of our March bargaining proposal that demanded the university comply with the law and raise the wages of all student workers. This would not...
Take it to the Regents
Join your UAW 4121 colleagues and friends in making our discontent over the direction of contract bargaining heard to the Regents tomorrow night at 5:30 PM at the University Of Washington Club (4020 E Stevens Way, On Campus Across from HUB) Come tell the Regents that...
Action NOW at UW
UAW Local 4121 members are taking action NOW to fight discrimination in the workplace. You can help! Click here to email top UW administrators, and demand that they accept our member's proposal to protect student workers against micro-aggressions, provide access to...
4/3/2015 – Weeks of Action
Today, upon hearing of this week's news that UW is not only refusing to increase wages for the lowest paid student workers on campus but also proposing to increase out-of-pocket fee costs for Academic Student Employees with waivers, UAW members have sent a clear...
University Proposes Wage Cut
Help Mobilize Now! One day after we proposed increasing the minimum wage for all student workers, and increasing wage rates for ASEs to make UW more competitive with peer institutions, the University’s bargaining committee on Thursday proposed a cut in tuition waivers...