by UAW 4121 | Jan 12, 2023 | Membership Updates, PD bargaining updates
RSVP for action meeting Thursday 1/19 1pm We are having an action meeting on Thursday, 1/19 over Zoom to put pressure on UW to move towards our proposals and win a fair and strong contract. Please attend to let UW Admin know that you demand a fair and equitable...
by UAW 4121 | Jan 5, 2023 | Membership Updates, PD bargaining updates
Bargaining Update, Action Planning Meeting Tomorrow Please RSVP to an important meeting on Friday 1/6 at 12pm to meet with other Postdocs and Research Scientists and discuss building collective action needed to win a fair contract. Following our last bargaining...
by UAW 4121 | Dec 23, 2022 | Membership Updates, PD bargaining updates
We were bargaining with UW Admin on Wednesday and Thursday for the last two sessions before the end of the year. We are making progress on all aspects of the contract but still have some ways to go and continue to see some concerning, arbitrary divisions in the way...
by UAW 4121 | Dec 20, 2022 | Membership Updates, PD bargaining updates
12/15 Mass meeting recap Last Thursday, hundreds of Postdocs and Research Scientists & Engineers came together in groups across campus to sit in on bargaining between management and the RSE bargaining committee. In this powerful show of solidarity, we demonstrated...
by UAW 4121 | Dec 7, 2022 | Membership Updates, PD bargaining updates
Today was our sixth Postdoc Bargaining session and our bargaining team has made proposals on 16 different articles of our contract. We’ve reached tentative agreement with UW admin on two articles, and have only received counter-proposals from them on two other...
by UAW 4121 | Nov 21, 2022 | Membership Updates, PD bargaining updates
Our organizing is working! Just days after last week’s mass meeting, where nearly 200 Postdocs & Research Scientists came together to discuss bargaining and what it will take to win fair contracts, today UW Admin made significant movement towards us with a...