June 2025 Membership Meeting Date Change
We’re changing our regular Membership Meeting (MMM) schedule! Starting now, MMMs will happen on the third Thursday of each month at 5pm. However, because the third Thursday (June 19th) is Juneteenth, we’ll meet instead on June 26th at 5pm in CSE2 Room G04 (the Bill & Melinda Gates Center, not the Paul G. Allen building). All members in good standing are highly encouraged to participate!
Our UAW bylaws (Article 5, Section 4) state that regular MMMs can only be held during the academic year (September 16–June 15). However, we can hold special meetings with the same format, they just require 14 days’ notice (per Article 5, Section 1). Therefore, June 26 will be a special meeting, and we’ll likely hold similar meetings in July and August. All special meetings will follow our standard MMM agenda (reports, announcements, and member discussions).
Questions? Email uaw4121.org or come to the June 26th meeting!
6/6 International Solidarity Social – Let’s Build Community Together!
RSVP here to join your fellow UAW 4121 members tomorrow in CSE2-G04 from 5-7 PM for a social hosted by the International Solidarity Working Group (ISWG)! This is a space for non-U.S. citizen members (ASEs, Postdocs, and RSEs) to share experiences and resources, though citizen members are also welcome to show solidarity!
Why? The federal administration continues to target non-US citizen students and scholars—including attacks against Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and Temporary Protected Status (TPS), visa revocations, travel bans, detentions, and deportations without warning or due process. As union members, we’re fighting back against these attacks through:
- Sharing travel safety tips and legal resources.
- Collective action via writing a demand letter to the UW administration.
- Building community with one another so nobody has to face this alone!
FREE FOOD will be provided – come for dinner and good people! 🍕💙🍕
We’ve drafted a sign-on letter calling on the university to:
- Protect funding/appointments if immigration status changes
- Provide free legal aid and create an emergency bail fund
- Expand housing/healthcare access during crises
- Ban campus police from immigration enforcement
- Defend free speech rights for non-citizen protesters
RSVP for the social here, and sign onto the demand letter even if you can’t attend! For questions, please email intl-workgroup@uaw4121.org.
UW is Violating Our ASE Job Security in Modified Offer Letters
Have you received your ASE offer letter for summer or fall quarter? We’re seeing problematic language tacked on in some departments’ letters that threatens our appointment security. Specifically, several departments have added clauses like:
“Your financial assistance may be reduced or terminated if available funding is reduced or stops during the term of this appointment.”
This modification violates our contract! Our collective bargaining agreement (Article 4) guarantees stable appointments, meaning UW can’t make funding contingent after hiring us. This is a blatant attempt to weaken our job security without opening the floor to bargaining with us as a collective unit.
To fight this, we need evidence showing how widespread this is across UW. If you’ve received an offer letter (whether it has this language or not), please fill out our 5-minute survey and upload your letter if possible. You can still fill out this survey even if you HAVEN’T received your offer letter yet!
As a note on offer letter timeliness, our contract requires:
- June 1st deadline for 9-month appointments
- 30 days notice before quarterly appointments start
If you are reading this, please fill out the survey by tomorrow (6/6). The more departments we know are affected, the stronger the case will be to push back on these offer letters at the university-wide level. Let’s take action together and hold UW accountable for modifying our contracts without bargaining!