Please read below for an important update on the October 2023 Vacancy Election and the Amalgamation Referendum. Please note that these are two separate votes.
Amalgamation Referendum: October 10-20
Beginning tomorrow at 6am, members of both UAW 2865 and UAW 5810 will begin voting on a referendum on whether to merge both local unions into a single amalgamated union for all UAW academic workers at UC. The combined union would represent 48,000 academic workers, including Academic Student Employees, Student Researchers, Postdocs, and Academic Researchers.
Ballots for the Amalgamation Referendum can be accessed here and will open tomorrow at 6am. Please note that this is a separate election from the Vacancy Election.
Vacancy Election Results
The nominations acceptance period for the April 2023 UAW 5810 Vacancy Elections concluded on October 8, 2023 at 11:59 PM. At the close of nominations, no vacant positions received more than one nomination acceptance. Therefore, the following candidates, being UAW Local 5810 members in good standing, and having accepted nomination for uncontested positions, are automatically elected.
Candidate statements may be viewed at this Google Doc link.
Executive Board Positions
Nominated and elected by the statewide Academic Researcher Unit membership
Member At Large: Sian Y. Rodríguez Rosado
Nominated and elected by the statewide Postdoc Unit membership
Member At Large: Tanya Gupta
Joint Council Positions
Postdoc Unit
Berkeley
Head Steward: Nayela Zeba
Davis
Campus Chair: Hanna Ehrlich
Head Steward: Jay Bhasin
Riverside
Campus Chair: Francisco Guevara
San Diego
Recording Secretary: Renata Cupertino
The following vacant positions received no valid nomination acceptances and therefore remain vacant:
Joint Council Positions
Postdoc Unit
Irvine
1 Head Steward
Merced
1 Campus Chair
1 Recording Secretary
Riverside
1 Recording Secretary
Santa Barbara
1 Recording Secretary
Academic Researcher Unit
Berkeley
1 Recording Secretary
Davis
1 Recording Secretary
1 Head Steward
Irvine
1 Recording Secretary
2 Head Stewards
Los Angeles
1 Recording Secretary
Riverside
1 Campus Chair
1 Recording Secretary
Santa Barbara
1 Campus Chair
1 Recording Secretary
Constitutional Convention Delegates
1 Convention Delegate
In solidarity,
UAW 5810 Elections Committee
Matthew Wright, LBNL
Raul Rodriguez, UC Berkeley
Kieren Marini, UCSF
Katie Uckele, UCSC
Tejas Navaratna, UC Santa Barbara
Sydney Campbell, UCLA
Kristine Grace Cabugao, UCSD