Email Digest
Wages Breakdown for the Tentative Agreement
After more than three months of negotiations, ASEs have secured a strong Tentative Agreement (TA) that we are now voting to ratify. This TA contains the highest raises ASEs at UW have ever won—though not everything that we deserve, these raises will put hundreds more...
Vote YES on the Tentative Agreement!
As of noon today, the ratification vote on the Tentative Agreement is open to all ASE union members, and closes at 7pm on Friday. Our ASE bargaining team is recommending a YES vote on this Tentative Agreement. Our unit has fought hard over years to build power and...
Tentative Agreement Overview
Wage Increases A 36% increase to the base ASE salary over the life of the contract (12%/10%/10%)—the largest raises our bargaining unit has ever won in a contract 5% instead of 7.5% difference between steps in the base rate Premaster: 12%/10%/10% Intermediate:...
Tentative Agreement! Strike Paused
This evening, our ASE bargaining team reached a Tentative Agreement (TA) with the University. The team is recommending this TA for ratification by membership; the strike is on pause while membership votes on ratification. This Tentative Agreement will become our...
5/8 Bargaining Update: We WON on Immigration! See you at the Regents Rally!
TL;DR: Victory! TA on our first ever Immigration Article; TA on Article 35: Workload Regents Rally TOMORROW! Admin files Unfair Labor Practice charge At today’s mediated bargaining session, our ASE bargaining team reached a Tentative Agreement on our bargaining unit’s...
5/6 Bargaining Update: Why does Admin want ASEs at the bottom of the market?
Here’s the summary of yesterday’s mediated bargaining session: UW Admin is in full attack mode against their own workers. UW Admin has been stalling for months on wage increases for ASEs. Their current proposals would keep ASEs paid way below market rate while ASE...
5/3/2024 Bargaining Update — Sit-In 4121 Day 3: Countdown to 5/14!
Today at noon, hundreds of ASEs and community members gathered for a rally on the HUB Lawn, during which we committed to strike starting on May 14 if we do not have a new contract. UW Admin’s behavior this week has been disappointing. During Tuesday’s bargaining...
4/30/2024 Bargaining Update – Hey Admin: May Day Mayhem Begins Tomorrow
TL;DR Sign up NOW for May Day Mayhem! UW works because we do; join tomorrow’s work-in! Tomorrow we unleash May Day Mayhem. Sign up NOW for Day 1. We’ve told Admin over and over — April 30th is a REAL deadline with REAL consequences. Unfortunately, as it stands right...
4/26/2024 Bargaining Update with Justin Applegate & Peter Lindquist
I’m Justin Applegate. I’m a 4th Year PhD candidate in the department of Biochemistry. I study how pathogenic bacteria recognize and attach to human cells during infection, and I am a member of the ASE bargaining team. So Peter, how was bargaining for you today? I’m...
4/23 Bargaining Update: Strike Authorization Vote!
Hi Colleague, I’m Tahiyat Rahman, an RA in Physics and a member of the ASE Bargaining Team. I’m frustrated that UW Admin is showing callous disregard for the damage they’re doing with their unserious proposals—damaging not just to ASEs, but to the whole UW community....