RSVP HERE WAWU doesn’t accept the idea of a campus bubble - as a union, we’re incredibly active in our surrounding community, and we make up 2% of the voting block in Bellingham! WAWU student employees played a significant role in raising the minimum wage for ALL workers here in Bellingham, and we successfully convinced […]
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 […]
FILL OUT THE SURVEY AND RSVP HERE A coalition of labor, community, non-profit, tenant, and manufactured homeowner organizations and Councilmember Jace Cotton are introducing an ordinance to prohibit unfair and excessive fees in residential rentals and manufactured home parks. Your stories as renters and manufactured homeowners of unfair fees and deposit requirements is crucial to […]
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 […]
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
RSVP HERE WAWU doesn’t accept the idea of a campus bubble - as a union, we’re incredibly active in our surrounding community, and we make up 2% of the voting block in Bellingham! WAWU student employees played a significant role in raising the minimum wage for ALL workers here in Bellingham, and we successfully convinced […]
Find WAWU at Western's Info Fair! Sign membership and authorization cards, get info about upcoming events like direct actions and committee meetings, and ask questions!
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 […]