Dear UFWW Member,For more information on the public records request made by the Freedom Foundation, please go to our website at ufww.org and click the Freedom Foundation Info button.Rich Brown, UFWW PresidentUnsubscribe » ...Continue Reading

Dear Colleagues,The 2019-2020 school year has begun with the specter of scarcity haunting Western. Much of President Randhawa’s convocation address was a warning that our current financial arrangements are untenable. And Provost Carbajal has told our Deans and Chairs that the Academic Affairs budget has been stretched to breaking, to the point that we now have to begin recapturing and creating an unhealthy competition for tenure track faculty positions. In meeting after meeting, deans and chairs and faculty are talking ...Continue Reading

Dear Colleagues,A quick reminder that the UFWW Bargaining Team is holding two open forums this week to gather feedback from faculty on our current collective bargaining agreement and important areas of interest and priority as we prepare to bargain a successor agreement later this academic year. The forums will be held today (Tues) and tomorrow (Weds) afternoons from 4-5pm in Fraser Hall 101. We hope to see you there!UFWW Bargaining Team--Unsubscribe » ...Continue Reading

Dear Colleagues,On behalf of the UFWW and the UFWW Bargaining Team we would like to take a moment to welcome you back to campus and make you aware of some important events happening this fall and later this academic year.By now you should have noticed that your salary has increased by 4% this fall. This increase was negotiated between the UFWW and WWU as part of a contract reopener that occurred in the spring of 2018 and covered the final two years of our current collective bargaining agreement (CBA). The current CBA ex ...Continue Reading

Hello all,We were updating our mailing lists this morning and a subset of faculty received an auto-generated message with the following header:All Faculty Mailing List Unsubscription Request - Denied.Please disregard this message, and sorry for any inconvenience.Sincerely,UFWW Communications--Unsubscribe » ...Continue Reading

Dear Faculty,UFWW hopes you enjoyed opening your paychecks this week and noticing your increased pay.  Your 2% raise is the second part of this year’s total 4.25% across the board raise which we bargained last spring.  And this year’s 4.25% increase is only part of the _44% across the board increase in pay_ that your union has bargained on your behalf since 2008. While noticing your raise, did you also look to verify that UFWW dues were being withheld?  If you didn’t see this reduction, you ...Continue Reading

Dear WWU Faculty,I'm pleased to announce that today the WWU Board of Trustees voted unanimously to accept the new CBA agreement between UFWW and the University.I'd like to take this opportunity to once again thank the Chair of our Bargaining Team Matt Roelofs from Econ, along with his team:  Marilyn Chu from Elementary Ed, Josh Cerretti from History, Vicki Hseuh from Political Science, Janice Lapsansky from Biology, Kristi Lemm from Psychology, Bill Lyne from English, Mark Springer from Decision Sciences and Jeff Y ...Continue Reading

 Dear Colleagues,The tentative agreement of our Collective Bargaining Agreement as amended by the recent reopener was approved by an overwhelming majority of votes.This Friday, June 15th, Matt Roelofs, Chair of our Bargaining Team, and I will attend the Board of Trustees meeting to present the results of our vote. We expect the board will put their ratification of the tentative agreement to a vote. I will let you know the results of that vote as soon as possible after the meeting.Best,Rich Brown, UFWW President---U ...Continue Reading

Dear Colleagues,A few moments ago we updated the digest of the CBA to correct a typo in the section on compression and equity adjustments.*/22.2 Compression and Equity Adjustments/*UFWW and WWU have agreed to modify the compression and equity formula described in Appendix E to account for the high cost of living in Bellingham. Previously the target salary was calculated as 1.06% 106% of a faculty member’s CUPA (College and University Professional Association) disciplinary peer average adjusted for rank and time in servi ...Continue Reading

Dear Colleague:Earlier today you were sent an invitation to join the Canvas site 2018 Collective Bargaining. Accepting this invitation allows you access to the tentative agreement and a digest of the changes from the reopener of the 2012-2015 agreement. I also would like to invite you to an informational forum open to all faculty. UFWW will present the new agreement and provide an opportunity for questions. The forum is scheduled for *June 7th at 4:30 in Bond Hall room 106. *All are welcome.Members of UFWW will hav ...Continue Reading