by WAWU | Feb 27, 2024 | ESE Bargaining, ESE News, Weekly Newsletter
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...
by WAWU | Feb 20, 2024 | ESE Bargaining, ESE News, Weekly Newsletter
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...
by WAWU | Feb 12, 2024 | ESE Bargaining, ESE News, Weekly Newsletter
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...
by WAWU | Feb 11, 2024 | ESE Bargaining, ESE News, Weekly Newsletter
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...
by WAWU | Feb 2, 2024 | ESE Bargaining, ESE News, Weekly Newsletter
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...
by WAWU | Jan 26, 2024 | ESE Bargaining, ESE News, Weekly Newsletter
As Educational Student Employees, we won the right last year to collectively bargain for our working conditions. Our counterparts who do similar work with different job titles (Operational Student Employees) are currently fighting for their own recognition from...
