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Worker power is turning up in Washington State! Today at UW, 100s of RSEs, Postdocs, & supporters rallied to demand admin stop breaking the law and agree to fair contracts. And at WSU, 100s of ASEs joined bargaining to demand real protections against discrimination & harassment

Hundreds of UW Research Scientists, Postdocs, and supporters rallying in Mary Gates Hall.

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Screenshot of a slide from WSU-CASE Equity Day showing 143 participants in attendance.

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Screenshot of 24 WSU ASEs in a zoom bargaining session.

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SEIU Local 925

@SEIU925

UW Postdocs & Researchers rallied for a fair contract today and SEIU 925 members joined in solidarity. Reed Garber-Pearson shared their experience with UW's stalling tactics and reminded folks that by uniting and working together we can win strong contracts.

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UAW Local 5810

@UAW5810

Hundreds of University of Washington Postdocs

@uaw4121

and Researchers

are rallying right now for

to stop breaking the law and bargain fair agreements! #FairContractsUW

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And we! Are! Off! Mary Gates Hall is packed with RSEs, Postdocs and community supporters who are here to demand fair contracts NOW! #FairContractsUW #UWPostdocsRSEs #UWworksBCWeDo

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UW Research Scientists and Postdocs and community supporters rallying in Mary Gates Hall

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A UW Research Scientists with a microphone in front of a crowd, and a sign that says "Fair Contracts Now!" above

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Beth has been a RSE since 1990, and has seen firsthand how UW's refusal to pay living wages to its research workers has led to the loss of valuable workers because they can't survive on poverty wages at UW. “Wages aren't that much higher than when I started over 30 years ago.”

A UW researcher speaking in front of a crowd, with a sign that says "FAIR CONTRACTS NOW!" in the background

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UAW 4121 Academic Workers @ Univ. of Washington Retweeted

The UW Libraries Union has our backs! Reed shared their experience with UW's stalling tactics at the bargaining table, and how worker power will win us the contracts we deserve

A UW Libraries worker speaking in front of a crowd, with a UAW flag and a sign that says "Fair Contracts Now!" In the background

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"We can win – and we will win – if we build power predicated on majority participation, and cultivate deep solidarity founded on relationships of trust and mutual investment in each others’ well being." - Avi Matarasso (

@vmtrss

), ASE from Bioengineering on cross unit solidarity!

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group of people standing in Mary Gates Hall

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✊ “Our entire Labor Working Group stands in full solidarity with you in this fight.” - Sunny from

@SeattleDSALabor

on how community & labor solidarity gets the goods!

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📢 “We’re not asking for the sun and the moon, we’re just asking UW to obey the law, and enable the sort of high-level research that helps them as much as it helps us” - Brant Bowers, Postdoc in Electrical & Computer Engineering

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And we! Are! Off! Mary Gates Hall is packed with RSEs, Postdocs and community supporters who are here to demand fair contracts NOW! #FairContractsUW #UWPostdocsRSEs #UWworksBCWeDo

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UAW 4121 Academic Workers @ Univ. of Washington Retweeted

And we! Are! Off! Mary Gates Hall is packed with RSEs, Postdocs and community supporters who are here to demand fair contracts NOW! #FairContractsUW #UWPostdocsRSEs #UWworksBCWeDo

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UAW 4121 Academic Workers @ Univ. of Washington Retweeted

Washington State Labor Council, AFL-CIO

@WAAFLCIO

10h

Thank you,

@SenSaldana

, and congratulations to

Right to unionize codified for WA academic student employees

@WAWUunion

@WAstudents

and all others who helped secure this important expansion of collective bargaining rights! #1u #UnionStrong #waleg

thestand.org

OLYMPIA (April 24, 2023) — After much work by labor and student groups across the state, Governor Jay Inslee on Thursday signed SB 5238, a bill which enshrines the collective bargaining rights of all...

Fordham Graduate Student Workers-CWA

10h

From coast to coast, university administrations are committing Unfair Labor Practices – but from coast to coast, campus workers are organizing and showing up to hold them accountable 💪 Join us in 1 HOUR! twitter.com/FordhamGSW/sta

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We’re out here at LC! Join us!

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From our campus to

, higher ed workers are taking action today against university administrations bargaining in bad faith. Solidarity with workers walking out at

, as we count down to our Rally for a Fair Contract NOW at 1pm at Mary Gates Hall w/

Fordham Graduate Student Workers-CWA

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Seattle DSA Labor Committee

15h

Carrying forth the solidarity from

@SeattleDSALabor

& others over the weekend at the

@UniteHereLocal8

@350_Seattle

's Earth Day Rally to today's Fair Contracts NOW Rally TODAY at 1pm, Mary Gates Hall ✊

Group of people looking at the camera, holding up a flyer for the Fair Contracts NOW Rally

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@SeattleDSALabor

Apr 24

HAPPENING TOMORROW!!

Join @UAW4121 @uwrunited #UWPostdocsRSEs to demand @UW STOP stalling and breaking the law! #FairContractsUW ! #UWworksBCwedo Can't make it? Pitch into the strike fund givebutter.com/4121-pdrsestri or pledge your solidarity here bit.ly/UAW4121pledge

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Are you ready

UAW 4121 Academic Workers @ Univ. of Washington Retweeted

? Because we are! See you tomorrow at the Fair Contracts NOW! Rally #FairContractsUW #UWPostdocsRSEs #UWworksBCWeDo

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The Joint Council of

@Teamsters

28, representing thousands more workers in King County, also approved our request.

UAW 4121 Academic Workers @ Univ. of Washington Retweeted

Yesterday

@MLKLabor

granted us strike sanction, which ensures that other unions are asked to honor our picket lines should we choose to go on strike. This Council is comprised of union affiliates of more than 150 unions representing over 100,000 members.

UAW 4121 Academic Workers @ Univ. of Washington Retweeted

Community and labor support continues to grow for Research Scientist and Postdoc (

) campaigns to win fair contracts with

! 🧵 #FairContractsUW #UWPostdocsRSEs #UWworksBCWeDo

At the upcoming Region 6 Conference on race, gender, & immigrant justice in Seattle, UAW members across

will shape together our priorities, values, and agenda for social justice issues that we want to work on in our movement. RSVP: tinyurl.com/R6-may2023

Graphic with info about the Region 6 Conference, “An Injury to One is an Injury to All,” May 6-7 in Seattle, WA. Photos across the top depict historic and recent actions: a 1960s UFW-UAW march, a UAW 2865/5810 “no student ban” rally, UAW members at the March on Washington, and UAW members at a BLM protest.

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Employers like universities & hotels are some of the biggest polluters in our communities, and our research & teaching work is inseparable from the political work of collectively building futures that are not driven through capital and profit.

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A solidarity-filled Earth Day with members joining

@UniteHereLocal8

@350_Seattle

@SeattleDSA

& more for a greener future through organizing🌱 & building political power! Organizing our workplaces is crucial to climate justice - climate justice is worker justice!

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UL Metro Seattle

@SeaUrbanLeague

UAW 4121 Academic Workers @ Univ. of Washington Retweeted

Celebrate Black Earth Day this Saturday. This is a great opportunity to learn about environmental justice, share gardening tips, enjoy free drinks and food, and for kids to participate in farming and art activities. Black Earth Day at YES Farm | 727 Yesler Way, Seattle.

UAW Region 6

Solidarity is power & the right to respect picket lines is a 1st amendment right no employer should be able to take away. UAW members are proudly sponsoring AB 504 (Reyes) to enshrine that right into CA public sector law. Yesterday it passed committee - now on to appropriations!

8 UAW members standing on a staircase with their fists raised

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5 days till our Fair Contracts NOW Rally on April 24th at 1pm,

Mary Gates Hall! Everyone welcome! Join

& Postdocs like Henry (Physics) fighting for fair conracts. 🌟 RSVP: tinyurl.com/4nxdf4v5 🌟 #FairContractsUW #UWPostdocsRSEs #UWworksBCWeDo

text on a red background: UW Research Scientists & Postdocs need fair contract because... "The current wages are not enough to live on in Seattle, especially if you are considering having a family, which should be a basic human right. The point isn't that UW should be motivated by their own self-interest to provide better wages and security. The point is that UW needs to provide these things, because we're going to fight for them." Henry Brinkerhoff, Postdoctoral Associate, Physics

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SO exciting to be celebrating this amazing win with our #StayHousedStayHealthy coalition today 🥳 Get involved in our Housing Justice Working Group to continue building power for future wins! DM or email housing-justice@uaw4121.org 📨

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Transit Riders Union

@SeattleTRU

Apr 19

With the #StayHousedStayHealthy coalition, we are thrilled to be celebrating our first big wins of 2023! Yesterday the @SeattleCouncil capped late fees at $10 a month & banned predatory Notice Delivery Fees. knkx.org/government/202

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Fair Contracts NOW Rally, 4/24, 1pm

Apr 19

UW Admin has proposed a 1% pay increase for 2024 - an effective pay cut that would be the worst deal our Postdoc unit has ever been offered. Next Monday, 1pm @ Mary Gates Hall – join us!✊ RSVP: tinyurl.com/2p8x7sss & DM to get involved in cross-unit organizing!

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at Mary Gates Hall

Apr 19

We’ve been bargaining for months, putting forth reasonable demands around pay equity for Fellows and increasing the minimum for paid-direct workers for 2023.

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Postdocs! If this is unacceptable to you, please go vote YES in our SAV right now.

Search your inbox for subject: “Strike Authorization Vote Ballot” OR reach out to use for the link.

A blue square with the text: "Postdoc Wages" on a black banner. Below the black banner, text that reads "UW Admin is proposing abysmal wage increases for Postdocs after 2023. AND their proposal still manages to be MORE EXPENSIVE and less predictable than ours." Red finger pointing left, with the text: "Swipe to see this impressive feat."

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a 3-by-4 table with the following headings: "Postdoc Title," "Our compensation proposal," "UW's compensation proposal." On the first row of the table, the following text in each column: "Scholar," "2023: Increased to $65,508 on Jan 1, 2024: Increased to $72,000 on Jan 1." "2023: Increased to $65,508 on Jan 1, 2024: 1% increase (PDs fall below WA state minimum wage threshold & must start tracking hours). 2nd row of the table, text in each column: "Fellow," "2023: Increased to $65,508 on April 1 or reappointment date (soonest), 2024: Increased to $72,000 on Jan 1," "2023: Increased to $65,508 on reappointment. If 2023 reappt has passed, July 1. 2024: 1% increase (PDs fall below WA state minimum wage threshold & likely start tracking hours). 3rd row of the table, text: "Paid Direct," same text as second row with numbers replaced $57,000 and $64,000, "2023: $53,760. 2024: $54,840. Current UW policy prohibits supervisors from supplementing Paid Direct wages"

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Blue square with white text: "Our proposal guarantees a higher minimum wage and provides predictability for Postdocs and for budgets by keeping us overtime exempt. Unless Admin expects us to (illegally) under-report hours, their proposal gets more expensive with just 2.5 hrs of overtime.

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A bar graph titled "2024 UW Postdoc Wage Proposals." X axis reads: Weekly Overtime, and Y axis reads: 2024 annual wages (USD for 52 working weeks). The bar graph shows that UW Admin's proposals would actually cost more but if the overtime tracking is implemented.

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UAW 4121 Academic Workers @ Univ. of Washington Retweeted

Please join for our Fair Contracts NOW Rally on April 24th at 1pm,

UAW 4121 Academic Workers @ Univ. of Washington Retweeted

Mary Gates Hall! RSVP via linktree. #FairContractsUW #UWPostdocsRSEs #UWworksBCWeDo

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350 Seattle

@350_Seattle

Mar 24

This Earth Day, we’re taking to the streets for climate justice — and taking on the big corporations who are polluting for profit. Join us! secure.everyaction.com/uXUU5VT8k0OKVa

UAW 4121 Academic Workers @ Univ. of Washington Retweeted

UAW Region 6

Apr 6

Next month! Join fellow UAW members from across Region 6 locals & campaigns for a 2-day conference on issues of race, gender, & immigrant justice. We’ll reflect on lessons & wins from past fights, & collectively strategize for the future. More info & RSVP: tinyurl.com/R6-may2023

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We're turning out en masse again with

IN PERSON in 1 week for our Fair Contracts Now rally on April 24th @ 1pm in Mary Gates Hall. Everyone (including ASEs, Postdocs, Research Scientists, and more!) is welcome to attend. See you there! RSVP: forms.gle/Hb6nwapGVhiH8M

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Over 250

Research Scientists and Postdocs attended last week's Mass Meeting and are ready to win the fair contracts we deserve! #FairContractsUW #UWPostdocsRSEs #UWworksBCWeDo

Collage of screenshots from Zoom meeting containing 100+ faces with fists raised. Text reads: "Mass Meeting (line break) "UW Postdocs & RSEs are fired up for fair contracts!"

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UAW Local 5810

@UAW5810

Apr 17

Check out this piece by UAW 5810 President Neal Sweeney: After the first-ever strike by Postdocs anywhere, UC Postdocs have made incredible strides to improve the Postdoc experience through our union—and there's more work to do.

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nature

@Nature

Apr 12

Correspondence: Postdoc unions can help secure a brighter future go.nature.com/41dmals

UAW 4121 Academic Workers @ Univ. of Washington Retweeted

The

will vote tomorrow on whether to enact a rental late fee cap. Earlier this month a council committee voted to increase the maximum up to $50.

@cmkshama

@CMTammyMorales

and

@TeresaCMosqueda

are proposing to lower the cap back to $10. realchangenews.org/news/2023/04/1

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Last two paragraphs of the solidarity statement, which can be found here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UAm4NoK1-OpUIvbeTKsl5cukyTyG7BE9wVFvGy5nJ5o/edit

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Third & fourth paragraphs of the solidarity statement, which can be found here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UAm4NoK1-OpUIvbeTKsl5cukyTyG7BE9wVFvGy5nJ5o/edit

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First two paragraphs of the solidarity statement, which can be found here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UAm4NoK1-OpUIvbeTKsl5cukyTyG7BE9wVFvGy5nJ5o/edit

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Rutgers solidarity statement - PUBLIC

As higher ed organizers across the

and more, we’re proud to be fighting to transform our campuses alongside you ✊ Full statement (which will continue to be updated with sign-ons) here: tinyurl.com/rusol23 & below:

docs.google.com

We stand in solidarity with the educators, researchers, and clinicians that make up Rutgers AAUP-AFT, Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union, and AAUP-BHSNJ as they strike for a fair Rutgers. As higher ed...

Truly inspiring to be witnessing years of deep organizing, coalition building, and strategic militancy come alive this week in New Jersey. Solidarity forever with

-- the Rutgers workers that actually make Rutgers work!