Email Digest
Bargaining & Membership Meeting
Bargaining Update We met with the University’s bargaining team again yesterday, and discussed numerous items on our bargaining agenda. In particular, the exchange over health insurance benefits reinforced that we have a significant way to go in moving the University...
Reminder – Bargaining and Membership Meetings Tomorrow (1/28/2015)
Our next bargaining committee meeting with the University will take place tomorrow (Thursday 1/29) in Condon 311 starting at 9:00 a.m. All UAW 4121 members are welcome and encouraged to attend. If you can’t make it, please follow the process by reading updates on...
Bargaining Updates, Membership Meeting, and More
Bargaining Update Click here to add your name to the initial contract demands! In today’s meeting with the University we focused on improving health care, creating greater inclusiveness and accessibility on campus, and determining the effects of the University...
The Year Ahead
Welcome back. Hope you had a good break. Here's a reprise of our victories in 2014 and a preview of the challenges to come in 2015. In particular, please add your name to the bargaining demands and note our bargaining agenda and schedule, the upcoming membership...
Fast-food strike, day of wage actions TODAY (12/4)
Thousands of fast food workers in 190-plus U.S. cities will strike TODAY for $15 and the right to organize — including here in Washington state, where workers will strike and rally for $15 in Bellevue, Kent, Aberdeen, and Olympia. For more information see...
Support Graduate Employees at the University of Oregon who are striking for a fair contract.
Today graduate employees at the University of Oregon (GTFF, AFT Local 3544) are striking for a fair contract. Read more about it and sign a solidarity petition here: http://gtff3544.net/ The UAW 4121 executive board has also sent the GTFF the following letter of...
UW Chinese Students & Scholars Association poster in support of UAW 4121
Biennial Steward Election Update
Since the following positions were uncontested, the following candidates are automatically elected: Region 1 Steward Jennifer Brookes Micah Buuck Peter Conlin Kristen Garofali Dan Hart Peter Johnston Laura Koehn Eddie Schwieterman Region 2...
GAIP Now Trans Affirming! Call for Bylaws Volunteers; and More
Trans* Affirming Health Care Victory Great news! The University has agreed to settle our grievance and make GAIP inclusive of gender confirmation. As a result of activists on campus in the community – both ASEs and not – who have pushed for inclusive health...
UAW 4121 Initial Bargaining Demands
Sign Me On! Union members from across campus have developed initial bargaining demands for upcoming negotiations with the University. This has been based on input from the bargaining survey, research into other contracts, our grievance history, and...