Updates
March 31, 2009
Dear Colleagues,
The State Senate and House of Representatives have both released their proposed budgets and both would be devastating to Western and higher education…
March 4, 2009
In the face of all the bad news about the economy and potential state budget cuts, it’s important that Western’s faculty stay as informed as possible. President…
January 22, 2009
Dear Colleague,
As you may already know, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act has been introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives. This bill includes…
December 2, 2008
Dear Colleagues,
By now everyone is probably pretty weary of the relentlessly bad budget
news. President Shepard and Provost Murphy have begun and continue regular
…
June 6, 2008
The UFWW ratification vote on the tentative agreement between the UFWW and
Western's Administration is now complete. The membership ratified the
proposed contract, with…
May 27, 2008
As you have just heard from President Morse, we now have a tentative agreement on a first contract. The UFWW sincerely thanks President Morse and the members of the…
May 23, 2008
The day after bargaining collapsed, the administration sent an e-mail to the campus and beyond with the enticing title of “University Offers Significant Faculty Salary…
May 21, 2008
All along, the UFWW bargaining team has said that no contract is better than
a bad contract. It now appears that there will be no contract until either
the administration…
May 13, 2008
The administration and UFWW bargaining teams met with the PERC mediator for two all-day sessions on Monday, May 12 and Tuesday, May 13. On Tuesday afternoon major…
May 7, 2008
Well-Paid Presidents and Polite Professors
A UFWW Bargaining Update (printable pdf) (full size graph)
The contrast has become too stark to politely ignore.
After one…
April 25, 2008
The UFWW and administration bargaining teams met again on Thursday, April 24, and Friday, April 25. Minor progress was made. Virtually no progress was made on the key…
April 22, 2008
The Springtime of Our Discontent:
A UFWW Bargaining Update (printable pdf) (full size graph)
“One of the things that unites everyone in this room is that we all care…
April 17, 2008
The UFWW and Western administration bargaining teams met all day on Tuesday,
April 15 and Wednesday, April 16. The mediator from the Public Employees
Relations…
April 4, 2008
Kristi Lemm, UFWW VP
Faculty Picket Board of Trustees
More than 150 Western faculty members picketed and attended the April 4 WWU Board of Trustees meeting. United Faculty of Western…
April 14, 2008
The Empire Strikes Back and It Wants You to Work Harder
Last Thursday afternoon, Western faculty received an e-mail from an ominously disembodied Provost@wwu.edu. In the…
March 30, 2008
On March 25th and 26th the faculty and administration bargaining teams met for a third time with a state-assigned mediator in an effort to reach a contract agreement. We…
March 12, 2008
The UFWW and administration bargaining teams met Tuesday and Wednesday, March 11 and 12, with a mediator from the Public Employees Relations Commission. This brings the…
March 10, 2008
Crossroads. A message from United Faculty of Western Washington President Bill Lyne on behalf of the Executive Board and Bargaining Team
February 28, 2008
The United Faculty of Western Washington and WWU Administration bargaining teams met with a mediator from the Washington Public Employees Relations Commission for nearly…
February 1, 2008
On January 31, more than 300 members of Western’s faculty participated in the UFWW’s Bargaining Update meeting, led by UFWW President Bill Lyne (English). The meeting…
January 10, 2008
One year ago this week, the UFWW Bargaining Team submitted the first full faculty contract proposal to the university administration. Since then, the Bargaining Team…
December 12, 2007
The UFWW and administration bargaining teams met for four days last week. Our goal was to continue until we reached a tentative agreement or until it became clear which…
September 25, 2007
Heading into the new academic year, we want to update you on progress towards our first faculty contract. The bargaining team for the United Faculty of Western…
2005-07 Equity/Compression Raises Distributed
The United Faculty of Western Washington and Western’s administration have signed a Memorandum of Understanding that will give $256,858 in salary increases to 91 faculty…