Email Digest
Nominations are open for UAW 4591 Executive Board!
April 9, 2024 Dear Colleague We won our historic first contract this past January, and are now electing an Executive Board! Would you like to be a part of our union’s inaugural leadership team? Now is your opportunity to help shape our union as one of the...
April Monthly Meeting Next Week | Membership Information | Website Updates
March 28, 2024 Hello fellow ASEs, Our April Monthly Member Meeting is around the corner on April 2nd, at 6PM! RSVP here for a link. As a reminder, these meetings happen on the first Tuesday of every month. This month, we’ll be focused on contract...
Membership Trainings TODAY | Board of Regents Meeting | Budget Organizing
March 14, 2024 Local 4591//WSU-CASE Announcements & Updates: We’re hosting two Zoom trainings today. No experience required! Organizing 101: TODAY 3/14 from 12-1pm, Zoom. Our union is only as strong as we make it! Today, we will go over the basics of...
Monthly Meeting Tomorrow at 6pm!
March 5, 2024 ICYMI, WSU-CASE is now officially UAW Local 4591, the first ASE union in WSU history. This is a huge milestone, and now it's time to build the strong, democratic union we've fought for. Let's build our union together! Our next Monthly...
Sign up for membership! Meeting Tues March 5th
February 27, 2024 ASEs voted to charter our own amalgamated UAW local and we are now officially UAW 4591! The number represents our unity and spread across the state with 4 Research & Extension Centers, and 5 Campuses, 9 in total acting together as 1. Our...
Affiliation vote results and threats of budget cuts to implement our CBA
February 13, 2024 We have officially voted to charter our own amalgamated local! This means that we can create a governance and organizing structure that empowers us to enforce our contract and build a strong union. ASEs have fought hard for our new union and our...
Vote to decide how we affiliate with UAW!
February 7, 2024 The affiliation vote is now live! You can find your ballot here: Ballot - Vote Here Both our bargaining and organizing committees recommend option 1 as it best suits our needs. See this excerpt from last night’s Monthly Meeting, which goes over...
Congrats on our new contract
February 3, 2024 Congratulations on ratifying our historic first contract, which covers groundbreaking wins for graduate and undergraduate Teaching Assistants, Research Assistants, Staff Assistants, Veterinary Assistants, and Project Assistants! Now it’s time to take...
We have voted to ratify our contract!!
January 26, 2024 As of 5pm today, WSU Academic Student Employees (ASEs) have overwhelmingly voted to ratify the Tentative Agreement as our first-ever union contract! With 99% voting YES (1,169 YES votes and 15 NO votes, amounting to approximately 68% voter turnout),...
Have you cast your ballot in the Ratification Vote?
January 22, 2024 ICYMI: On Wednesday January 17 we reached a Tentative Agreement on all contract articles! This agreement includes significant increases on wages, healthcare plan improvements, strong protections against harassment and discrimination, and so much...