Greetings Colleagues,We hope this email finds you well. We’re writing to let you know that we’ve signed an MOU for Winter 2022. You can find the MOU below and on our website.Information about the process for requesting remote instruction will be forthcoming shortly. As always, if you have any questions or concerns please don’t hesitate to reach out. Sincerely,Theresa Warburton Kirsten Drickey  Matt Roelofs---Memorandum of Understanding Between Western Washington University and United Faculty of Weste ...Continue Reading

Greetings All,Thank you to everyone for your interest in our new tentative agreement. We know that some of you who wanted to attend the General Membership meeting today were unable to do so.  In light of this, we're offering another session on the Tentative Agreement *tomorrow, Tuesday October 26th at 4:30PM. *You can use this link to access the meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82254373002?pwd=cmlPcEh5ZFNCNE9iZDBLZjRuYjdTZz09. If you are prompted to enter a passcode, it is UFWW. By now, you sh ...Continue Reading

Greetings, We write with two updates today: one concerning bargaining and one concerning a special election for a seat on the UFWW executive board. TENTATIVE AGREEMENT and GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING First, we write to let you know that the bargaining team has reached a tentative agreement in the process of negotiating a successor agreement to our previous contract. We also would like to invite you to an informational forum open to all faculty where UFWW will present the new agreement and provide an o ...Continue Reading

Greetings Colleagues,We hope this message finds you well as we begin the 2021-2022 Academic Year. We know that this year will have its challenges and we are committed to continuing to provide support to faculty as we navigate whatever arises. As we begin the year, we have a few short updates to share.First, we’d like to update you on the bargaining process. As you may remember from the last update, bargaining between UFWW and Western’s administration stalled in June with no agreement. Though no formal bargaining took pl ...Continue Reading

Greetings WWU Faculty,Yesterday, Western Washington University and the United Faculty of Western Washington signed a memorandum of understanding regarding working conditions for Fall 2021. Please find the text of the memorandum below and at this link. You may contact UFWW President, Theresa Warburton, or UFWW bargaining team chair, Matt Roelofs, with any questions.We'll continue to provide updates and details once faculty are back on contract September 16th. Hope you are all having a restful summer.Talk soon,Theres ...Continue Reading

Dear Colleagues,We write with an update on UFWW bargaining with the WWU administration. In Spring 2020, we had begun to bargain a new agreement when the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic forced us to extend the current contract by a year. We agreed to bargain possible salary increases for the 20/21 academic year in the fall, but those negotiations did not produce an agreement on any increases for faculty. The contract extension will expire on September 15, 2021, and for the past few months we have been working to bargain a ...Continue Reading

Join the UFWW Bargaining Team for an update on the contract negotiations currently under way. Monday at 5 pm. Please see zoom link below. Thanks UFWW exec  Topic: Bargaining UpdateTime: Jun 7, 2021 05:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meetinghttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/82278789883?pwd=VC9hVFg5N2hoUDNnRkREbFE5MWNIZz09 Meeting ID: 822 7878 9883Passcode: 249852--Unsubscribe » ...Continue Reading

Dear Colleagues, You are cordially invited to join us at the annual Spring meeting this Friday, May 21, at 9:00 am via Zoom (link below).  Nominations for UFWW elections are still open and we have one additional “At-Large” position open for a total of six (6) open positions.  The positions are: President; Communication Director; Chief Steward; At-Large (three positions). A brief description of the positions and the nomination form can be found here:https://forms.gle/F6qfmtp8jG2JvEcd8 Additional ...Continue Reading

Dear Colleague,Many faculty have expressed concerns about the multiple ongoing changes to the Fall reopening plan and schedule.  UFWW writes to remind its members that they have rights under the CBA and state and federal law that cannot be ignored. We encourage you to contact your steward or UFWW execs if you need support or advocacy in this process. The return to campus raises a number of safety concerns for faculty and UFWW is in the process of bargaining the impact of the mandate on faculty working conditions.UF ...Continue Reading

Dear UFWW Colleague,This year UFWW has five (5) open positions.  In the boxes below, please nominate candidates for one or more of the positions listed.  You may nominate yourself.  If you are nominating someone other than yourself, please make sure they are willing to serve in the capacity you nominate them. Additional nominations will be collected at the general meeting on May 21st, 2021, at which point the call for nominations will close.  A Zoom link will be sent to members for the general meetin ...Continue Reading