by uaw5810 | Jun 7, 2019 | Fighting Discrimination and Harassment, Gender Equity in Academia, Updates
Please read this powerful piece from the Daily Bruin’s editorial board taking UCLA to task for their pregnancy discrimination against Sandra. Click the link to read or scroll down: Editorial: Pregnancy discrimination looms large at UCLA, forces women out of...
by uaw5810 | Jun 2, 2019 | Fighting Discrimination and Harassment, Gender Equity in Academia, Updates
Sandra Koch, a Postdoc in neurobiology at UCLA, is facing a horrific case of retaliation in response to a pregnancy discrimination grievance that she filed last year. Will you please take a minute to sign our petition demanding that UCLA immediately stop this...
by uaw5810 | Apr 5, 2019 | Fighting Discrimination and Harassment, Gender Equity in Academia, Updates, Visas/Immigration
UC San Diego Postdocs deliver a letter to UCSD Administration on behalf of a Postdoc grievant. Let’s say it’s your one-year anniversary as a Postdoc. You have been looking forward to the salary increase guaranteed by our contract, but when you look at your...
by uaw5810 | Jan 29, 2019 | Fighting Discrimination and Harassment, Gender Equity in Academia, Updates
Led by Education Secretary DeVos, the Trump administration has proposed changes that would severely weaken protections against sexual assault and harassment in academia. These changes would make it much harder for survivors to come forward and represent a massive step...
by uaw5810 | Jan 17, 2019 | Fighting Discrimination and Harassment, Gender Equity in Academia, Updates
Led by Secretary Betsy DeVos, the Department of Education is trying to weaken protections against sexual assault and harassment (also known as Title IX protections). These changes would represent a huge step backwards in ending the crisis of sexual harassment in...
by uaw5810 | Jan 3, 2019 | Bargaining, Fighting Discrimination and Harassment, Gender Equity in Academia, Science Funding and Policy, Updates, Victories, Visas/Immigration
Postdoc Union members at our statewide membership meeting in October. 2018 was a big year for our union — starting salaries went up by over $2500, we successfully enforced our rights and pushed for pro-science policies, we nearly doubled in size with the...
