A bill to establish collective bargaining rights for student employees was heard in the Senate Labor & Commerce Thursday.
Senate Bill 5895, sponsored by Sen. T’wina Nobles (D-Fircrest), would create a framework for collective bargaining for a new bargaining unit of employees enrolled in an academic or certificate program at Washington’s regional universities — Central Washington University, Eastern Washington University, Western Washington University and Evergreen State College — that are not currently covered in state law.
Right now, there is no statutory framework that defines collective bargaining for student employees doing work outside of research, instructional, and other academic-related services. Nobles said the legislation defines an appropriate bargaining unit as all employees covered in this statute to ensure students employed by their university have equitable protections across different types of jobs.
“Student employees are critical to the everyday operations of their universities. They are resident advisors, maintenance workers, cashiers, counselors, tour guides, and so much more — each with unique job needs,” Nobles said. “It’s time for more student workers to have a voice in their workplace.”
Follow the bill’s progress here.
As a student who worked on campus, in several capacities, while attending CWU I find it very troubling that T’wina Nobles feels it is her legislative duty to interject in student employment. Students don’t HAVE to work on campus, but if they do and become unhappy, they can find a job in the local economy that surrounds every university.
Government should never be involved in creating bargain unions at any level or capacity ever!
Really??? With all of the serious problems in our communities, spending time on something like this seems more than absurd, to say the least.
This is so typical of what T’wina thinks is good for our 28th district. She spends more time promoting union membership than she does in promoting jobs for our citizens. Union membership means union dues that just takes money from workers to pay big union bosses. Look where her campaign money comes from. Not struggling students.
Government plus union equals communism.
Nobles is a communist.
No news there.
And the compliant sheep said, “It’s ok. That’s progress” – as the communists continue to build the tall fence around them”.
The safe space that is a government job “service” has morphed into a thing of wealth and power.
The abuse of this power through public money and policy manipulation is what makes the collective of communism so dangerous.
The SCOTUS is about to strike down “Chevron Deference” for this very reason, after decades of such abuse of power by the bureaucracy.
We are a Constitutional Republic with laws that represent all citizens equally.
For some that’s just not equal enough.
The last thing we need is more unionism.