UW Researchers need a union to stop harassment and discrimination at work and promote diversity, equity, and inclusion
Across the country, academic workers are unionizing at a record pace to equalize the power relationship between employer and employee. Discrimination and harassment are pervasive in academia, an industry that is second only to the military in sexual harassment rates. By building power through organizing and collective bargaining, together we can:
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negotiate better wages and benefits,
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win stronger recourse against belittling or abusive treatment,
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improve job stability and equity in career advancement,
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and promote a supportive and inclusive culture.
This page documents individual experiences that represent patterns of discrimination and harassment that have occurred and continue to occur across UW, as well as strategies used by unionized academic workforces to combat these pervasive problems. Unionizing as UAW 4121 / UW Researchers United is the most powerful collective action UW Researchers can take to make lasting changes to the inequities, discrimination, and harassment persistent in UW’s academic culture.
Fiona Spencer, Aeronautics and Astronautics
Mandy Owens, Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute
Sandra Radin, Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute
Sharon Garrett, Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute
Karen Segar, Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine
Erin Firth, APL: Polar Science Center
Dan Shapero, APL: Polar Science Center
Charles Delahunt, Applied Math
Christopher Phillips, Astronomy
Ian Sullivan, Astronomy
Juan Trujillo, Astronomy
Lynne Jones, Astronomy
Meredith Rawls, Astronomy
Rishi Pahuja, Astronomy
Irini Topalidou, Biochemistry
Maddie Williams, Biochemistry
Michael Crawford, Biochemistry
Danny Leon, Bioengineering
Micah Glaz, Bioengineering
Ivan Cruz, Biological Structure
Tricia Wu, Biological Structure
Steph Carlisle, Carbon Leadership Forum
Alex Tang, Cardiology
Cara Margherio, CERSE
Emily Knaphus-soran, CERSE
Erin Carll, CERSE
John White, Chemistry
Nagendar Pendem, Chemistry
Tian Qing Yen, Chemistry
Bonnie Chang, CICOES
Nathan Buck, CICOES
Nicoleta Cristea, Civil & Environmental Engineering
Mikey Saugstad, Computer Science
Christine Leibbrand, CSDE
Jen Krenz, DEOHS
Deb Morrison, Education
Malaika Schwartz, Family Medicine
Sam Pollack, Family Medicine
Ellie Reese, Forestry
Laura Gibbons, General Internal Medicine
Emma Timmins-schiffman, Genome Sciences
Emily Yoshioka, Global Health
Alex Schaefer, Global Health
Amy Roll, Global Health
Shana Hirsch, HCDE
Scott Miles, HCDE
Dan Mccloy, I-Labs
Kambiz Tavabi, I-Labs
Kristina Herrera, Institute for Protein Design
Marcos Miranda, Institute for Protein Design
Natalie Brunette, Institute for Protein Design
Kat Mclean, Lab Medicine & Pathology
Kelsi Penewit, Lab Medicine & Pathology
Bekah Reynolds, Lab Medicine & Pathology
Kayoko Ogimoto, Metabolism and Endocrinology
Sarah Larsen, Metabolism and Endocrinology
Toni Hsu, Mitochondria and Metabolism Center
Shelley Clark, Nephrology
Kody Zalewski, Neurological Surgery
Jessica Dyer, Nursing
Julianna Alson, OB/GYN
Sean Hughes, OB/GYN
Amanda Winans, Oceanography
Jaqui Neibauer, Oceanography
Shelly Carpenter, Oceanography
Elizabeth Han, Oncology
Billy Kreuter, Pharmacy
Abby Gambrill, Physiology and Biophysics
Ian O’leary, Physiology and Biophysics
Mark Hudson, Physiology and Biophysics
Nathaly Munoz, Physiology and Biophysics
Adam Livengood, Psychiatry
Eliza Cohn, Psychiatry
Jared Bechtel, Psychiatry
Mark Pettet, Psychology
Adrienne Lehnert, Radiology
Daniel Peterson, Radiology
Annie Kucklick, Social Work
