Our unionized peers in WFSE 1381 - utilities, custodian, office, grounds, trades, and so many more workers at Western are currently bargaining with WWU administrators for their next contract! Meet on the comms lawn at 11:00 on Tuesday, September 10th and wear WFSE Green or your WAWU t-shirt (there will be t-shirts available for anyone […]
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 […]
Are you signed up to present our first contract at your workplace's fall orientation? The WAWU Orientation committee is hosting a mandatory prep session for any and all orientation presenters where you will be shown the orientation materials and work on tailoring them to your specific workplace!
RSVP HERE Learn from experienced leaders around the intersections of justice in Bellingham and Washington. While each topic is different, all will have information about what we do, how we do it, and how each part connects to the whole. Join us to connect the dots of a progressive political movement and turn the "city […]
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 […]
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 […]