Email Digest

May 5, 2023 After our bargaining session today, we are still making progress at the bargaining table, but at this point UW Admin has refused to agree to proposals that we’ve identified as priorities, including livable and competitive wages, financial support for...

May 2, 2023 Rally at the South Lake Union Campus Thank you to the 100+ Research Scientists, Postdocs, and community members who attended our Fair Contracts NOW Rally yesterday in SLU! You can watch excerpts from several of the speeches here. In just the past week,...

April 25, 2023 Rally Thank you to the 400+ Research Scientists, Postdocs, and community members who attended our Fair Contracts NOW Rally yesterday! Mary Gates Hall was absolutely packed. It was exhilarating to come together and feel the solidarity in our fight to win...

April 21, 2023 Bargaining Update This week we met with UW Admin for our 26th and 27th bargaining sessions and UW is back to its old tricks, but first a recap of proposal exchanges. Admin did not agree to our proposal to begin sponsoring visas for international RSEs....

Bargaining Update Yesterday we met with UW Admin for our 25th bargaining session. Unfortunately, we were not able to Tentatively Agree (TA) on any new articles of our contract. See here for overviews of the proposals that we are still bargaining. We made substantial...

April 12, 2023 Quick reminder that our April Mass Meeting is tomorrow (April 13th) at noon. Please RSVP here for the zoom link. Reasons why you should attend: We will cover updates about bargaining, what we have won so far, and what we are still fighting for. There is...

April 10, 2023 Bargaining Update Seven weeks ago we successfully completed our Strike Authorization Vote with a 91.7% yes vote. As you have probably seen, since the beginning of the year, we had been making painfully slow progress with UW Admin in bargaining. But we...

April 6, 2023 April Mass Meeting Please RSVP to attend our April Mass Meeting which will be on Thursday April 13th at noon. We will cover updates about bargaining, what we have won so far, what we are still fighting for, and what actions we are planning on taking in...

March 31, 2023 We want to take a moment at the start of this email to provide some clarity around terminology used during bargaining. All of our bargaining is being done in order to negotiate a contract with UW; this contract is called a Collective Bargaining...

March 23, 2023 Bargaining Update This week we met UW Admin at the bargaining table for our 20th bargaining session.  Below is an overview of three of the proposals we exchanged: Performance Evaluations (Union, employer proposal) and Classification and Reclassification...

March 10, 2023 Bargaining Update This week we met UW Admin at the bargaining table for our 18th and 19th bargaining sessions. As has become routine, UW Admin arrived at both sessions without any counter proposals prepared. We’ve yet to see counterproposals back from...

February 28, 2023 Bargaining Update Yesterday we met UW Admin at the bargaining table for our 14th bargaining session. As has become routine, UW Admin arrived at the meeting without any counters to our previous proposals. Below is an overview of some of the proposals...

February 23, 2022 Bargaining Update Yesterday was our first bargaining session with UW Admin following our successful Strike Authorization Vote. Research scientists from across campus showed up to tell Admin that we are unwilling to entertain their insulting...

February 16, 2023 Great news! Tonight, our Strike Authorization Vote concluded with 959 total votes cast, and 91.7% of Research Scientists/Engineers A-4 voting Yes. A supermajority of all UW RSEs have voted to authorize our Bargaining Team to call a strike if...

February 14, 2023 0% market adjustment and an annual 2% cost of living increase, This was what UW proposed during Research Scientist bargaining last week. As a reminder, UW’s own salary study says that they pay RSEs 30% below market. This insulting proposal followed...