Dear WWU colleague,This is a friendly reminder of the deadline for completing the UFWW Equity and Justice anonymous survey.  If you have completed it already, thank you.  If you haven't, please note that the survey will close on Friday April 9, 2021 at 11:59 pm.Thank you,UFWW Ad Hoc Committee on Equity and Justice. ---For more information about this survey, please contact Vicki Hsueh: vickihsueh@PROTECTEDsurvey url: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeYtLjzSOMCfAeRw-SVnwTVSo4A674ocFn ...Continue Reading

Dear Colleagues,We write with an update on Western and higher education in the current legislative budget process.  Both the Washington State House of Representatives and the Washington State Senate have now released their budget proposals for the 2021-2023 biennium.  *Neither of these proposals include any cuts to Western’s state appropriation for 2021-23.*  Neither proposal includes any employee furloughs and both proposals include all the compensation funding from the 2019-21 biennium. The state b ...Continue Reading

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Dear Colleagues,We write to you today with an update on bargaining between UFWW and WWU.  In late 2019 the UFWW Bargaining Team began preparations to negotiate a full successor agreement to the CBA that was set to expire on September 15, 2020.  Formal bargaining began in early March 2020, only to be ground to a halt less than two weeks later with the explosion of the pandemic.  Our team and the University team met to discuss how to proceed and we signed an MOU on April 29, 2020 (see the MOU here) to exten ...Continue Reading

Dear Colleagues,Last Friday, WWU Budget Director Faye Gallant wrote to the campus with an update on Governor Inslee’s budget proposal, which was released on Thursday.  We appreciate Director Gallant’s swift attempt to keep the Western community informed about the governor’s proposal, but we write to provide what we feel is necessary perspective and context.  As Director Gallant points out, the governor’s proposal provides new funding for new initiatives, including Ethnic Studies and all of Western’s capital pr ...Continue Reading

*UFWW Note on the 12/03/2020 WWU-UFWW MOU*Across the country, Covid-19 is affecting faculty labor conditions in multiple ways. Faculty organizations and unions have published brief but important studies showing how, as a result of this crisis, faculty labor conditions have deteriorated with the onset of Covid-19. Due to these exceptional circumstances, it is now very difficult to accomplish the essential tasks of teaching, research, and service. This has simultaneously produced numerous professional and personal challen ...Continue Reading

 Dear all,  Earlier this morning, in response to persistent emails and requests from UFWW, university admin informed us that they would send an email to all faculty with an update regarding support for WiFi technologies for remote teaching. They have done this. In the email, the administration at long last lays out a process for faculty to request funds (and reimbursements) to ensure effective Internet connectivity at home. Please let us know if you have any questions.Best,Executive Committee, UFWW B ...Continue Reading

September 25, 2020   Dear Western Community,Across the country, Covid-19 is affecting faculty labor conditions in multiple ways. Faculty organizations and unions have published brief but important studies showing how, as a result of this crisis, faculty labor conditions have deteriorated with the onset of Covid-19 and, in some cases, to the point where it is difficult to accomplish the essential tasks of teaching, research, and service. /Faculty are working under exceptional circumstances/. At WWU these a ...Continue Reading

 Greetings,We are working on collecting information about how to best support faculty and staff caregivers during the upcoming academic year, with a special emphasis on providing youth programs in Fall 2020. To better assess the needs of faculty and staff, we've created this short survey. This survey can be filled out anonymously and shouldn't take more than 10 minutes to fill out. We encourage you to take the survey by this upcoming Wednesday, September 16th so that we can aim to provide services th ...Continue Reading

 Dear Western Community, The United Faculty of Western Washington represents faculty who have collectively given thousands of years of service to our students and the university. While our primary job is to protect faculty wages, benefits, and working conditions, we feel strongly that it is also our responsibility to attend to the general welfare of students, faculty, staff, and the communities we serve. With Phase 1 of registration fully underway and the deadline for issuing Non-Tenure Track Faculty cont ...Continue Reading