If you are a student employee who has been working in the Admissions office this summer, this orientation is for you! The admissions office is the first to grant its employees the 30 minute paid Western Academic Workers United orientation that we won in our first contract. Come learn about which aspects of the contract […]
Introducing the 2024 WAWU Summer Retreat! Please join your fellow WAWU members for a fun day full of power mapping, campaign planning, community and FREE FOOD (that's right, breakfast and lunch provided!!) This event is a great starting point for learning more about the Operational Student Employee (OSE) campaign and how each of us plays […]
The Orientations Committee meets weekly to create and implement the Western Academic Workers United new employee orientations that we won in our first contract. This includes: creating the visual elements to be presented and handed out to student employees attending orientations, hive-minding the important talking points for new student employees so that they fit within […]
The Bylaws Writing Committee is getting together and creating the bylaws for our newly forming local UAW chapter. Our bylaws will be the standards and rules by which all business conducted by our local chapter will be guided by. Anyone and everyone is welcome to write the first version of this very important document! This […]
Weekly meetings of all Educational Student Employee (ESE) organizers! We create and go over strategies for keeping all of our peers and coworkers informed about the protections and benefits of the first contract that we won together. Anyone and everyone is welcome! This meeting is virtual. Email for access to the google meets link.
Weekly meetings of any ESE and/or OSE who is interested in building the political power of student employees! We organize WAWU’s legislative and policy agenda. If you get excited about the “behind the scenes” work of making change happen, about the democratic process, and/or about giving student employees a voice in Bellingham and Olympia. This […]
Weekly meetings of any ESE and/or OSE who is interested in making sure the student employees at WWU get justice for any workplace issues that they experience! If you want to hold Western accountable to uphold our first collective bargaining agreement, this committee is for you. Anyone and everyone is welcome! This meeting is virtual. […]
Weekly meetings of the Operational Student Employee (OSE) bargaining committee! The OSE BC is the elected body of student employees who are committed to gathering information about OSE's bargaining priorities, writing contract language to protect those priorities, and presenting them to WWU administration. Anyone and everyone is welcome to come to these strategy meetings - […]
Weekly meetings of all Operational Student Employee (OSE) organizers! We create and go over strategies for keeping all of our peers and coworkers informed about our collective efforts to be recognized by the university as a union and to start bargaining our first contract. Anyone and everyone is welcome! This meeting is virtual OR in […]
If you are a student employee who has been working in the Academic Advising and Student Achievement Center this summer, this orientation is for you! Come learn about which aspects of our first contract are the most relevant to ESEs in AASAC, why signing up for official WAWU-UAW membership is crucial to our continued success as […]
Weekly meetings of any ESE and/or OSE who is interested in planning and executing the events and mass actions that student employees participate in to make waves in higher education. Anyone and everyone is welcome! This meeting is virtual. Email for access to the google meets link
If you are a student employee who has been working in the Environmental Science Department this summer, this orientation is for you! Come learn about which aspects of our first contract are the most relevant to ESEs in ESci, why signing up for official WAWU-UAW membership is crucial to our continued success as a collective […]