So thrilled about this new project out of UAW Region 6 - there's so much potential in campus labor organizing and I'm proud we're taking it seriously! Check out our website (or shoot me a DM) if you want to know more 🤩

Academic workers rallying at University of Washington sending love and solidarity to autoworkers organizing in Chattanooga to join the UAW family!

only took me 5 years to take a UW cherry blossom pic, but the outfit was worth the wait 😉

see you friday at noon under the cherry blossoms to rally for a strong contract @uaw4121 🌸 tiny.cc/cherryrally

Hi! 👋 It’s us! Your favorite coalition of higher ed unions, profiled in Inside Higher Ed 🥰

The University of Alaska bargaining team is holding up bargaining with AGWA/UAW and refuses to talk with the graduate students. If Pat Pitney and the Board of Regents want UA Fairbanks to be R1, the university needs to respect grad students!

choo choo all aboard the union train!!!

BREAKING: HON- SIGN I-137 fund social housing🏘️🌲 have just filed their initiative with the Seattle City Clerk for a tax on overly-compensated employees. If it makes the ballot and passes, it could bring in about $50 million a year for social housing and build 2,500 homes a year.

Techno-legal-solutionism is what happens when policymakers require tech companies to be solutionistic for good. It’s just as fatally flawed of a logic as the deterministic ones regularly used by tech. Learn more: danah.org/papers/2024/Te…

Today, hundreds of @uaw2865 & UAW Local 5810 academic workers & community members came together in front of the Oakland Federal Courthouse to stand in solidarity with the Palestinian families suing the Biden administration for their role in aiding and abiding genocide in Gaza.

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Eye opening statement from US Senator Ron Wyden that NSA and other US intelligence agencies buying #locationdata from #databrokers despite FTC making clear such sales must stop. wyden.senate.gov/news/press-rel…

It's been 100 days since we introduced the Ceasefire Now Resolution.

25,700+ people have been killed
1.7M have been displaced
63,740+ people are injured
8,000+ are missing

We cannot wait another 100 days for President Biden to facilitate a lasting ceasefire. We need a #CeasefireNOW .

At today’s National CAP Conference, Sen. Bernie Sanders spoke about the fight against corporate greed & the need for increased union organizing. Afterwards, he met with Region 6 Local Presidents Rafael Jaime (@uaw2865), Lark Winner (UAW Local 4123), & Levin Kim (@uaw4121).

“As a public sector workers in Washington state, we need the same ability to democratically decide to form a labor union and utilize technology in the same way our private sector colleagues can.” -Iván Cruz of @uaw4121

We’re UAW!
#StandUpUAW #solidarity
🎥 UAW Region 6

'More than a thousand academic student employees at Washington State University could walk off the job Wednesday, Jan. 17, if they don’t come to a tentative agreement over their first contract.'

tri-cityherald.com/news/local/edu…

pulling out my favorite maize & blue UAW 4121 Academic Workers shirt for game day 😉 UW works because we do, and Michigan works because Grad Employees' Org UMich LEO Union do!

(and also, go blue!)

Iron Claw (2023)

Our 1st year as a re-formed region has been a busy one!

✅ Decisive organizing wins by 1000s of workers
✅ Bold campaigns & strikes to win historic contracts
✅ Concerted political organizing
✅ & more!

Details in the Dec newsletter: region6.uaw.org/region-6/blog/…

WSU Admin have until January 17 to come to the table with a fair agreement that reflects the dignity and worth of ASEs. If they fail to do so, ASES will strike starting Wednesday, January 17th wsucase.org/last-chance-st…