Meetings | UAW Local 4121

2025-2026 Schedule

2025-2026 Membership Meetings will be held on the dates below at 5:30 PM (unless otherwise noted here or on the calendar).

Membership Meetings are held either via Zoom or in a hybrid format. To access the link/call-in number and/or the on-campus location, please fill out the RSVP form for the meeting that will be emailed to all members beforehand. You can also join our Union Slack for more immediate updates.

All members in good standing are encouraged to attend and new members may sign up to join the union before the meeting by filling out this form. Information about how to join will be emailed to members prior to each meeting date. Please email uaw4121@uaw4121.org with any questions.

Equity and Anti-Harassment Commitments

We are committed to ensuring that membership meetings, including those conducted via Zoom, are structured to provide equitable, participatory, democratic access to all members who wish to join. To maintain this commitment, we have consulted with other organizing groups who have run large participatory meetings using Zoom, and have adopted their best practices. To participate in a discussion, type “stack” in the Zoom chat and you will be called on to speak (this is equivalent to raising your hand in an in-person meeting). In addition, we are aware of incidents of harassment in Zoom meetings, including at UW, often by outside users abusing features like screenshare, group and private chat, and annotation. We are monitoring these issues closely and are taking precautions to prevent these kinds of abuses, and have developed strategies for quickly managing any issues if they were to arise during the meeting.

General Process for Membership Meetings on Zoom

At the April 9, 2020 Membership Meeting, members approved the following general process for Zoom membership meetings:

Presenters for each section will share on what they’ve prepared to discuss, then there will be time for open discussion. To participate in discussion, you can join the “stack” by:
- If you’re joining via the Zoom app or a web browser: “raise your hand” or type “stack” in the chat, and you’ll be added to the stack of people in line to speak. To raise your hand, select “participants” at the bottom center and then in the bottom right corner select “raise hand.” A small blue hand icon should appear next to your name in the participants list.
- If you’re joining via the voice-only phone-in: “raise your hand” by pressing *9 and you’ll be added to the stack.
Meetings will have a “waiting room.” When you join the meeting, you’ll be entered into a virtual waiting room. Once a facilitator has verified your membership, you will be admitted into the Zoom meeting space. Everyone is encouraged to sign into meetings 5-10 minutes beforehand to help expedite this check-in process.
Participating in votes: Votes on motions made will be done using Zoom’s nonverbal feedback feature (yes/no buttons in “participants” pane) or polling feature. For voting items, a member needs to move the motion; have it be seconded by another member; followed by discussion & questions; then a vote.
To prevent the chat from becoming inadvertently distracting, please use it only for making motions or sharing documents actively being discussed.
Everyone will stay on mute unless they’re actively talking. To be added to the queue to speak, type ‘stack’ in the chat and the facilitator will call on you.

If you have any questions or concerns, please don’t hesitate to reach out to uaw4121@uaw4121.org.