After ending armed police patrols of student housing in the wake of the George Floyd protests, the University of Washington has reversed its decision and will bring back armed police patrols of UW dorms.
that UW failed to bargain with Teamsters Union Local 117, which represents the University of Washington Police Department, over the end of patrol shifts around the dorms. The report found that the university failed to inform UWPD about removing armed officers from the residence halls before introducing unarmed Campus Security Responders .
In an investigation done by PERC, they determined that the university did not properly meet with the representatives from Local 117 to bargain over the shift change, violating Washington State Labor Laws. The university argues that the expiration in June 2021 of the Memorandum of Understanding between UWPD and UW Housing and Food Service, which established the patrols of the dorms, allowed them to change their security strategy for student housing.
“The employees’ interest in maintaining bargaining unit work outweighs the employer’s interest in a speedy reimagining of public safety on the employer’s campus … Instead, the employer determined that it needed to respond to campus interests and ignored its bargaining obligation.” He also argues that since the university had an interest in removing armed patrols as a part of the university’s entrepreneurial control. Specifically due to the possible repercussions among students and faculty, and the university’s interest in limiting student interactions with armed security when they might not be trained for handling interactions with students.
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