Email Digest
Wages Proposal, Town Hall Summary, and 6/21 bargaining!
June 19, 2023 This past Wednesday, we hosted our first Town Hall on the wages proposal! The Wages Workgroup presented their research, framing for our proposal to increase base wages, and context for how other ASE unions have made wins on wages. During the Town Hall...
Wages Town Hall on Wednesday at 5PM
June 12, 2023 Hello fellow ASEs! We are looking forward to our Wages Town Hall this coming Wednesday, June 14th at 5:00 pm over zoom! The wages workgroup will present the wage proposal structure models that we have been researching and are currently considering,...
6-6-23 Bargaining Summary
June 7, 2023 We had a very busy bargaining day yesterday, Tuesday, June 6th: TL;DR: We presented two counters on Respectful Work Environment and Discipline We received three counters from Admin: Accommodations, Management Rights, Appointment Letters, and one new...
Register for the WSU-CASE Monthly Meeting – 5pm Wednesday 5.31.23
May 30, 2023 If you haven’t already, remember to register for our upcoming monthly meeting on Wednesday, May 31st at 5:00pm. We’re fast approaching the time when we’ll begin bargaining for increases to our Wages. Members of the CASE Wages Working Group will be...
5-24-23 Bargaining Summary
May 26, 2023 We had an action-packed morning of bargaining on Wednesday, 5/24. TL;DR: We reached a Tentative Agreement on Retirement Benefits! We had a conversation on the Accommodations counter proposal that Admin presented during our last session. We presented new...
5-15-23 Bargaining Summary
May 17, 2023 TLDR;We had a short but productive bargaining session on Monday morning. We presented a new proposal for ASE Workload expectations. We received two counter proposals from Admin on Retirement and Accommodations. We returned a counterproposal to Admin on...
Important healthcare bargaining update
May 11, 2023 This is a fairly long and complicated email, but: TL;DR: Despite months of demanding to bargain over our health insurance plan, WSU has failed to bargain the insurance plan renewal and made a unilateral decision to change the 2023-2024 plan with less than...
4/24/23 Bargaining and Equity Day Update
April 25, 2023 Yesterday (4/24) was our 9th bargaining session with WSU Admin and we had a great showing for Equity Day. As always, proposals mentioned in the summary below will be linked on the WSU CASE website. TL;DR: 150+ ASEs turned out for Equity Day! We heard...
4/19/23 Bargaining Session Update
April 20, 2023 Yesterday, 4/19, was our 8th bargaining session with WSU Admin. Any proposals mentioned in the summary below will be linked on the WSU-CASE website. Overview of our bargaining session (TL;DR): We presented new proposals on a Union-Management Committee...
Equity Day on 4/24: let’s fight discrimination and harassment at WSU
April 17, 2023 58%. As per the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, that is how prevalent sexual harassment is in academia. Academia is second only to the military. 58% of our friends, colleagues, classmates, students, and professors experience...