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...
by WAWU | Jan 17, 2024 | ESE Bargaining, ESE News, Weekly Newsletter
At the bargaining session yesterday, we finally proposed all of our major contract articles by passing them across the table! Over 50 ESEs presented our demands for wages, tuition & fee waivers, parking, housing and healthcare, despite WWU Admin unilaterally...
