October 31, 2023
It is Day 3 of our Strike Authorization Vote (SAV) – have you voted yet?
- If not, take 30 seconds to vote! Click here to find your ballot!
- If you have – fantastic! Can you share this voting link with three of your friends and remind them to vote?
Yesterday, our WSU-CASE bargaining team met with WSU Admin for a full day of bargaining. Our ASE team presented many proposals, including a package of economic-related proposals (Wages, Fees and Tuition Waivers, Housing, Parking and Transit, Leaves, and Childcare) and proposals on Workload, Layoffs, Union Rights, and Immigration. We also discussed the current status of the health insurance proposal. Admin returned counterproposals on Union Rights, Immigration, Summer Session, and Workload. You can read all of the proposals that were passed yesterday at the bargaining center.
Admin’s counterproposals and responses to our ASE team’s proposals underscored just how crucial this SAV is. Although there was progress in Union Rights and Immigration, we saw only small movement from Admin in their Summer Session and Workload proposals. They are clearly not taking our presentations at the table seriously enough; in response to our economic proposal package, they stated that we are in “radically different universes” when it comes to wages and continued to incorrectly assert that they are prohibited from waiving fees. When asked about the status of the process to solicit bids for new health insurance plans, Admin stated plainly that they did not know what was going on with the process and would need to check. This stalling and lack of care toward an issue that is so incredibly important to ASEs is insulting, and it’s this exact type of behavior that led to their failure to bargain healthcare in the summer.
WSU Admin may be pushing back at the bargaining table, but they cannot ignore our power as a collective if massive numbers of ASEs vote YES on the Strike Authorization Vote. Join your fellow ASEs, some of whom have shared their testimonies below, in voting YES today!
If you need any further information, check out our announcement email, our Strike FAQ, and the International ASE Strike FAQ. If you have remaining questions about the SAV, please reach out via contact@wsucase.org or attend one of our remaining SAV Info Sessions via zoom – RSVP here to attend.
In Solidarity,
WSU-CASE Bargaining Committee:
Acacia Patterson, Physics & Astronomy (Pullman)
Adam Bozman, Carson College of Business – Finance (Pullman)
Andre Diehl, Comparative Ethnic Studies (Pullman)
Arianna Gonzales, Psychology (Pullman)
Aurora Brinkman, Psychology (Pullman)
Chelsea Mitchell, School of the Environment (Puyallup Research and Extension Center)
Chia-Hui Chen, Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences (Spokane)
Claudia Skinner, School of Languages, Cultures, and Race (Pullman)
Cody Lauritsen, College of Veterinary Medicine (Pullman)
Dano Holt, School of the Environment (Pullman)
Evan Domsic, Crop and Soil Science (Mount Vernon NWREC)
Gavin Doyle, English (Pullman)
Hannah Cohen, Veterinary Clinical Sciences (Pullman)
Kartik Sreedhar, Physics & Astronomy (Pullman)
Kayla Spawton, Plant Pathology (Mount Vernon NWREC)
Kelsey King, School of Biological Sciences (Vancouver)
Miles Hopkins, School of the Environment (Pullman)
Miranda Zuniga-Kennedy, Clinical Psychology (Pullman)
Naseeha Cardwell, Chemical Engineering & Bioengineering (Pullman/Tri-Cities)
Natalie Yaw, Chemistry (Pullman)
Ninh Khuu, Plant Pathology (Prosser)
Peter Obi, Pharmaceutical Sciences (Spokane)
Raymond Bennett, Psychology (Pullman)
Rebecca Evans, Biology (Vancouver)
Shawn Domgaard, Communication (Pullman)
Tazin Rahman, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (Pullman)
Tholen Justin Blasko, Animal Sciences (Pullman)
Victor Moore, History (Pullman)
Victoria Oyanna, Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences (Spokane)
Whitney Shervey, Sociology (Pullman)
Yiran Guo, Mechanical and Materials Engineering (Pullman)