UW Bargaining Update 9/10/18
UW BARGAINING TEAM AGREES TO MANY NON-ECONOMIC ITEMS, STILL WAITING FOR MANAGEMENT’S OFFER ON RAISES!Tentative agreement was reached on many non-economic items. Management has played a delaying game since day one, often proposing things that they knew would cause long d...
Students protest laundry closure
Students protest possible closure of UW Medical laundry; 100 jobs at riskOriginally published April 9, 2018 at 7:53 pm Updated April 10, 2018 at 8:00 amBy Katherine Long Seattle Times higher-education reporter
UW Bargaining Update 9/13/18
The Employer dropped a huge load of DISRESPECT on all of the members of all the unions!Their initial proposal was:
Endorsements 2018
AFSCME Council 28 Political Endorsements 2018Belwo is the list of endorsements made at the April 28 AFSCME Council 28 (WFSE) Endorsements Conference. FEDERAL RACESU.S. SenateMaria Cantwell, D*U.S. CongressCD 1: Suzan DelBene, D*CD 3: Carolyn Long, DCD 5: Lisa Brown, DCD...
UW Day of Action
It's time for UW to make the right choices!UW needs to:provide a free UPass to employeesprovide wages that people can actually live off oftake action to end institutional racism (words are not enough)JOIN US Wednesday, Sep. 127-8am UWMC, Montlake and Pacific11am-1pm UWM...
UW Police Area Reports
University of Washington Police10/20181- Monitoring investigation on the Chief7/20181- Preparing for contract negotiations2- Filed Demand to Bargain on assignment process4/16/18On-going enforcement issues related to compensation2/19/181- Filed a DTB- Tattoos...
Brett Kavanaugh: No R-E-S-P-E-C-T for Women’s and Workers’ Rights
Like others around the world, I mourned the death last week of Aretha Franklin. The Queen of Soul set a new standard for enduring classic songs with both artistic and political impact, like her mega-hit “Respect,” which became an anthem for both the civil rights and wom...
UW Bargaining Update 8/2/18
Another tough slog with the employerWhile a couple of good things are close being settled they still push back and try to control our stewards — "well if we pay them we think we should have some control came across the table."Our team is getting very frustrated about so...
UW Bargaining Update 6/28/18
OUR 3488 AND 1488 TEAMS PUT IN ANOTHER CHALLENGING DAY.Management completed their non-economic proposals.Our strength in numbers resulted in some good news regarding some of the MOU's they wanted to roll over and continue for the next agreement. Those MOU's involved som...
VIDEO Town Hall on Inequality at UW
KODX, Seattle, Dec. 8, 2018Watch the full town hall meeting held at the UW addressing inequality for workers.AFSCME Council 28 (WFSE) represents over 3000 workers at the University of Washington who laundry at Haborview Medical Center, at UW Medical Center and all acros...
UW Haborview Medical Center Area Reports
University of Washington – Harborview Medical Center10/2018Filed DTB:Installation of Cameras in Security Dispatch OfficeUW/HMC have proposed to install security cameras in the Dispatch office.
UW Members Vote No!
97% of WFSE Members at the UW Vote No!WFSE members at the University of Washington, UW Medical Center, Harborview Medical Center, and the Consolidated Laundry voted "No" to reject management’s Last Offer for the 2019-2021 union contract. Voting closed yesterday, with 97...
UW Main Campus Area Reports
University of Washington Main CampusAugust 2018There were six bargaining sessions in August and negotiations. In coalition with SEIU 925 and SEIU 1199, WFSE made very strong economic proposals for across the board wage increases and improvements to transportation and va...
Justice for Janitors
Chronicling decades of custodial mistreatment at the UWPerhaps you were taking a walk through Gowen Hall and found the ground floor linoleum to be awfully sticky. Maybe you were in the back of a Cunningham Hall classroom and accidentally touched a disgustingly dusty win...