Calling all Operational Student Employees! We are having a retreat Saturday, 4/20 from 11-3 at Lakewood. Come meet other OSEs and learn about organizing strategies, where our campaign is going, power building AND hang out, eat free pizza and swim!! RSVP ASAP with the link in bio to guarantee enough food!
Bargaining Session for Educational Student Employees with Western Washington Administrators. These open sessions are available for ANY student employee to attend, to observe, hold WWU Admin accountable, and show that student employees are engaged in the negotiation process. Sessions last for six hours, from 11am - 5pm, but you can come and go as your […]
The Events and Action Planning (EAP) committee meets to ensure that all WAWU events (for both OSEs and ESEs) are planned and executed smoothly. Currently, we are working on pulling together the logistics for our Strike Authorization Vote and Voluntary Recognition for OSEs! If you have a passion for event planning, this is the committee […]
Join the group of people to help make our social media posts, write our emails, edit our website, and generally maintain our public presence as Western Academic Workers United. This first meeting will focus on setting our goals, talking about key messaging frames, and splitting up the many platforms (Instagram, Twitter, email, TikTok, etc.) we’ll […]
Interested in helping with some of the the logistics that ensure our collective success as a unionized group of Operational Student Employees? Come to the OC meeting, anyone is welcome, regardless of experience or participation level! (Seriously, it’s totally fine to come be a fly on the wall) See you on Wednesdays, at 6pm online […]
Weekly meetings of all bargaining committee members and Educational Student Employee (ESE) organizers! We go over the plans for our upcoming bargaining sessions and keeping all ESE members up to date with the latest information. We generally start off the meeting with organizing plans and end with bargaining session prep. Anyone is welcome!
Bargaining Session for Educational Student Employees with Western Washington Administrators. These open sessions are available for ANY student employee to attend, to observe, hold WWU Admin accountable, and show that student employees are engaged in the negotiation process. Sessions last for six hours, from 11am - 5pm, but you can come and go as your […]
The Events and Action Planning (EAP) committee meets to ensure that all WAWU events (for both OSEs and ESEs) are planned and executed smoothly. Currently, we are working on pulling together the logistics for our Strike Authorization Vote and Voluntary Recognition for OSEs! If you have a passion for event planning, this is the committee […]
Join the group of people to help make our social media posts, write our emails, edit our website, and generally maintain our public presence as Western Academic Workers United. This first meeting will focus on setting our goals, talking about key messaging frames, and splitting up the many platforms (Instagram, Twitter, email, TikTok, etc.) we’ll […]
Interested in helping with some of the the logistics that ensure our collective success as a unionized group of Operational Student Employees? Come to the OC meeting, anyone is welcome, regardless of experience or participation level! (Seriously, it’s totally fine to come be a fly on the wall) See you on Wednesdays, at 6pm online […]
Weekly meetings of all bargaining committee members and Educational Student Employee (ESE) organizers! We go over the plans for our upcoming bargaining sessions and keeping all ESE members up to date with the latest information. We generally start off the meeting with organizing plans and end with bargaining session prep. Anyone is welcome!
A Strike Authorization Vote (SAV) Is a vote whether or not to give our bargaining team the authority to call a strike if circumstances at the negotiation table with WWU Admin justify. If a two-thirds (⅔) majority of Educational Student Employees (ESEs) votes YES, this would allow our bargaining committee to set a strike deadline. […]