News & Updates
2025-08 OSE Leadership Election Results
On August 15th, 2025, Western Academic Workers United's Joint Organizing Committee voted in three Operational Student Employees to serve equally as unit leaders for the interim period before the OSE Unit could be formally represented by WAWU. The Joint OC decided by a...
March 10, 2025: Liz Parkes Email
From: Liz Parkes Date: Mon, Mar 10, 2025 at 1:18 PMSubject: Re: Follow up on WAWU's meeting Dear Ms. Bowles: Thank you for your email. To clarify, during our meeting with operational students on Tuesday, February 18, 2025, the university made it clear that we did not...
OSE-Status-Update-May-2025
Update on our union Many of you received an email from Joyce Lopes regarding the Operational Student Employee’s ongoing union recognition campaign. In it she correctly states that we have voted to authorize a work stoppage, but incorrectly states that the...
May 13, 2025: Joyce Lopes Email to Faculty/Staff
From: VPBFA Office Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2025 3:00:26 PMCc: VPBFA Office; WWU Employees BCCSubject: Update on Operational Student Employees and Collective Bargaining Developments Dear University Community, With all that is going on this term, we want to keep you...
2025-OSE Strike Authorization Vote
OPERATIONAL STUDENT EMPLOYEES AT WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ARE FIGHTING FOR EQUITY WITH OUR ESE COUNTERPARTS We are 1,100 Western students working as Resident Advisors, Laborers, Program Support Staff, Writers/Editors, Clerks, Attendants and more at Western...
2025-05 Department Steward Election Results
On May 1st, 2025, Western Academic Workers United's membership elected the following department stewards: DepartmentNameContactCareer ServicesJack Bengstonbengstj2@wwu.eduEnglish Graduate TAsAnni Kamolakamolaa@wwu.eduHacherl Research and Writing StudioLeo...
2025-04 OSE Bargaining Committee Election Results
Meet the OSE Bargaining Committee! The nomination period for our Bargaining Committee (BC) election for Operational Student Employees (OSEs) closed on Thursday, April 10th, 2025 at 5:00 PM. Congratulations to the elected committee members! Most Recently Elected...
STATEMENT AGAINST ATTACKS ON HIGHER EDUCATION AND WORKING PEOPLE
WAWU-UAW Local 4929 represents 2,500 student employees. Every day we work to ensure that our students, our peers, and our communities have a clean, safe, and effective place to learn and grow. Our work, and the work of millions of academic workers across this country,...
WAWU-UAW 4929 STANDS IN SOLIDARITY WITH PALESTINE
WAWU-UAW 4929 Stands in Solidarity With Palestine WHEREAS, WAWU has stood in solidarity with the Palestinian Liberation Movement since the union's inception, bargaining our first, historic contract in tandem with the negotiations carried out by representatives of the...
2024-10 EXECUTIVE BOARD ELECTION RESULTS
The Executive Board vacancy election nominations period has concluded with Jules Robichaux and Eddie Church having accepted their nominations for Recording Secretary and a Trustee position. As they are running unopposed, there will not be a vacancy election to vote...