Have you already accepted your nomination to join the Operational Student Employee Bargaining Committee (OSE BC)? Are you interested in accepting your nomination but on the fence about joining the OSE BC? Either way, this information session is for you! We will be going more in depth into what being on the OSE BC will […]
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 collective bargaining agreement, this committee is for you. Anyone and everyone is welcome! This meeting is virtual. Email […]
Join the group of people to help make our social media posts, write our emails, edit our website, and generally maintain our public presence as Western Academic Workers United. This first meeting will focus on setting our goals, talking about key messaging frames, and splitting up the many platforms (Instagram, Twitter, email, TikTok, etc.) we’ll […]
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. Email for […]
Join us for our July Monthly Membership Meeting (MMM)! Meet other union members, talk about what’s happening with our campaigns on campus, how you can get involved, and what to expect in the coming weeks. RSVP here to get the link to the virtual meeting. All ESEs and OSEs are encouraged to come!!
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 priorites, 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]