CWU Contract Voting Documents & Timeline

WFSE members have voted to ratify the tentative agreement for your 2027-29 union contract!

Thank you to the bargaining team for their hard work at the negotiating table and every member who supported them by making calls, sending emails, and getting loud in our communities.

What's next? 

Get involved in our union's Legislative and Political Action program to win funding for your union contract, protect jobs and services, defeat the repeal of the Millionaires' Tax in November, pass the AI bargaining bill, and more!

For a bigger picture of how our contracts receive funding, check out our Road to a Fair Contract.

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Find details of the agreement below.

Message From Your Bargaining Team

Negotiation of the 2027-2029 CWU Tentative Agreement (TA) has concluded. 

As you all know, the budget deficit continues to grow, and compensation discussions were incredibly difficult as a result. Despite that, progress was made, we successfully fought off takeaways, and have secured a me-too to a re-opener for compensation increased in the second year of the agreement. 

Based on member feedback, your bargaining team leveraged the budget deficit to make every non-economic gain possible in these challenging budget times, and those gains are significant: 

Because of these achievements, your CWU Bargaining Team recommends that you vote YES toACCEPT this Agreement. A complete copy of the tentative agreement is available.

See the links below for a complete copy of the TA, highlights, voting instructions, and flyer.

• Read the complete TA
• Read the Highlights
• What are the repercussions of a YES or NO vote?

We want to thank you all for your hard work, research, job actions, and solidarity. Your strength makes all the difference! 

If you have questions, contact the Member Connection Center (MCC) at [email protected] or 833-MCC-WFSE (1-833-622-9373).

Your WFSE Central Washington University Bargaining Team

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Highlights

As you all know, the budget deficit continues to grow, resulting in incredibly difficult compensation discussions. As a result of that deficit, the contract focused heavily on defending core economic baselines and securing critical non-economic protections.

·  Key Economic & Healthcare Protections:

• Defended and secured over $348.5 million in new funding to protect the current cost share.
• Secured permanent special pay ranges (such as for plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters) and higher clothing/footwear allowances ($225).
• Expanded leave protections, including 8 days of bereavement, 24 hours of disaster leave, and up to 21 days of paid military leave.

·  Major Non-Economic Wins: 

• Strengthened contracting-out accountability.
• extended layoff notice timelines.
• established a process for formal workload support for unachievable tasks.
• added hate crime protections.
• doubled steward training release time.
• and streamlined grievance procedures directly to PERC for free arbitration filing.

How did we get here? 

Read all the Central Washington University bargaining updates from this round of negotiations on our CWU landing page here.