The WWU 2025-2027 Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) has been ratified!
SUMMARY & HIGHLIGHTS
Thanks to your actions in the workplace, the 2025-2027 WWU contract achieves several major goals identified as priorities by the membership.
Highlights include:
- Despite incredibly challenging budget projections, a general wage increase of 3% in 2025, and 2% in 2026
- A five-dollar per hour increase to the minimum wage, from $18 to $23 per hour
- 1% increase to regional compensation, for a total of 3%
- Added custodians (including non-FDO) to clothing allowance; increased the allowance for work clothing for custodial and building trades, from $200 per year to $225 per year; added mail room workers to footwear allowance
- New: Snow Removal Assignment Pay: employees will receive a two-range increase for all hours (rounded up to the nearest quarter hour) spent performing snow removal
- The ground-breaking creation of a new program allowing for up to 12 weeks of paid pregnancy disability or parental leave!
- Expanded bereavement leave from three (3) to five (5) days
- Added one (1) additional personal leave day, for a total of two (2)
- Dedicated lactation spaces for employees who need them
- Other non-economic gains
Read the summary here.
Read the full agreement here.
Questions about the CBA?
Contact the Member Connection Center (MCC) at [email protected] or 833-MCC-WFSE (1-833-622-9373).
