transportation
July 1, 2022
Universal U-PASS is now here!
Outgoing PSO Board member, Matt Weatherford, co-authored an article that documented the journey of how a coalition of employees, unions, and community members helped pass the fully-subsidized U-PASS as an universal employee benefit. PSO has also published our own timeline of transportation advocacy that supported the creation of this benefit. Reminder! Everyone that is paid…
February 11, 2022
PSO comments regarding changes in parking and UPASS
On February 11, PSO summited the following letter to Transportation Services as our public comment regarding to the proposed changes to parking the UPASS. See our previous blog post on how you can summit on your own comment. On behalf of the nearly 10,000 members of the UW Professional staff, the PSO Board hereby Supports…
Public hearing on parking rate increase and universal UPASS
Transportation Services (TS) is hosting a public forum with the Seattle campus community on a proposal to update the department’s funding model to better support long-term sustainability. The main recommendations of the proposal include: Increase parking fees by 4% in FY23, FY24, FY25 and FY26 Provide fully subsidized U-PASS to Faculty and Professional staff Reduce U-PASS and…
July 7, 2020
Sustainability Action 5-year Plan finalized
The UW has finalized its new Sustainability Action Plan, including five guiding principles and 10 measurable targets to ensure a sustainable, equitable and responsible future across all three campuses. This Plan will guide the University’s efforts over the next five years. A very brief subset of these targets include: Expanding virtual conferencing More Professional development…
