News & Updates
ESE Bargaining Session #13 Updates
TLDR: RSVP to come to our Western Academic Workers United (WAWU) Monthly Membership Meeting (3/12) to get updates and learn more about what’s been going on! Also, if you haven’t yet, sign our “Fully Fund Western” petition!! This week in bargaining between our union’s...
ESE Bargaining Session #12 Updates
TLDR: Add your name to our “Fully Fund Western” petition RIGHT NOW to show the university that we are committed to working together to save our educational and working experiences from budget cuts. We had another day of bargaining yesterday, where we brought...
ESE Bargaining Session #11 Updates
TLDR: Us Educational Student Employees deserve competitive living wages, tuition waivers, and fee waivers. Western’s biggest excuse is that they don’t have “enough money” to make that happen, but we know that WWU is the least funded university in WA per student. If...
ESE Bargaining Session #10 Updates
TLDR: Western brought their wages proposal to the table this week and… spoiler alert it shows that they absolutely do NOT value the labor we bring to this university. We NEED to hear your thoughts on their proposal. Come to the MMM tomorrow (Tuesday, 2/13 at 5:30 in...
ESE Bargaining Session #9 Updates
TLDR: Western continues to cling to the “bare legal minimum” protections that are obviously not cutting it for Educational Student Workers. Their reluctance to move towards us in the face of research and testimonies is yet another delay tactic in creating our first...
ESE Bargaining Session #8 Updates
Welcome to your weekly bargaining updates! As usual, we are keeping up the pace of bargaining to build our first contract as soon as possible. This week, we passed eight counter proposals across the table to Western Admin. We made movement towards WWU on Health and...
ESE Bargaining Session #7 Updates
As Educational Student Employees, we won the right last year to collectively bargain for our working conditions. Our counterparts who do similar work with different job titles (Operational Student Employees) are currently fighting for their own recognition from...
ESE Bargaining Session #6 Updates
At the bargaining session yesterday, we finally proposed all of our major contract articles by passing them across the table! Over 50 ESEs presented our demands for wages, tuition & fee waivers, parking, housing and healthcare, despite WWU Admin unilaterally...
Operational Student Employees Have Filed for Recognition!!!
12/13/23 Operational Student Employees Have Filed for Recognition!!!On December 13th, 2023, all 1,100 of us deemed “operational” student employees filed to form a union with majority support from the members in our unit. We filed at the Washington State Public...
ESE Bargaining Session #5 Updates
Huge news from the bargaining table this week! On Tuesday afternoon, we Tentatively Agreed to two absolutely crucial articles: 1) Training and 2) Workspace and Materials. In our Training article, we won the right to be trained in the duties necessary for our jobs and...