If you have been reading our bargaining updates over the past couple of weeks, you’ll know that we are holding a Strike Authorization Vote (SAV) in two weeks on May 6-9th - but you may be wondering why our bargaining has come to this point.  For too long, educational...

Last week we had our 17th bargaining session! While we continue to make progress with WWU admin, it’s clear that they see us differently than other employees on campus.  In response to our proposal of paid vacation time for hourly workers, WWU admin rejected the...

We hope that your spring break was restful and that you’re heading into this new quarter rejuvenated and ready to stand together to fight for our first contract as Western Academic Workers United (WAWU-UAW)! We had our sixteenth bargaining session with WWU Admin...

TLDR: Add your name to our petition and add your voice to our rally to show Western that we are committed to finding a solution where our reality doesn’t mean student workers have to drop out of school. As winter quarter is winding down, bargaining negotiations for...

TLDR: RSVP to come to our Western Academic Workers United (WAWU) Monthly Membership Meeting (3/12) to get updates and learn more about what’s been going on! Also, if you haven’t yet, sign our “Fully Fund Western” petition!! This week in bargaining between our union’s...

TLDR: Add your name to our  “Fully Fund Western” petition RIGHT NOW to show the university that we are committed to working together to save our educational and working experiences from budget cuts.  We had another day of bargaining yesterday, where we brought...

TLDR: Us Educational Student Employees deserve competitive living wages, tuition waivers, and fee waivers. Western’s biggest excuse is that they don’t have “enough money” to make that happen, but we know that WWU is the least funded university in WA per student. If...

TLDR: Western brought their wages proposal to the table this week and… spoiler alert it shows that they absolutely do NOT value the labor we bring to this university. We NEED to hear your thoughts on their proposal. Come to the MMM tomorrow (Tuesday, 2/13 at 5:30 in...

TLDR: Western continues to cling to the “bare legal minimum” protections that are obviously not cutting it for Educational Student Workers. Their reluctance to move towards us in the face of research and testimonies is yet another delay tactic in creating our first...

Welcome to your weekly bargaining updates! As usual, we are keeping up the pace of bargaining to build our first contract as soon as possible. This week, we passed eight counter proposals across the table to Western Admin. We made movement towards WWU on Health and...