AR Bargaining Updates
Major victory on workplace bullying and abuse!
UC Academic Workers win a huge victory on bullying and workplace abuse!This week, all four groups of UC Academic Workers represented by UAW–Academic Researchers, Academic Student Employees, Postdocs and Student Researchers–reached tentative agreements with UC on...
BIG Bargaining News // Keep the Momentum Building!
Last week, Academic Student Employees, Postdocs and Student Researchers all had bargaining sessions with UC (Academic Researchers will have their next session this week), and after a summer of putting pressure on UC we saw some big results. RSVP now to join a...
Bargaining Update for the Week of Sept. 12
48,000 UAW Academic Workers at UC—Postdocs, Academic Researchers, Academic Student Employees and Student Researchers—are all currently bargaining new union contracts. This gives us a tremendous opportunity to win transformative improvements to working conditions...
Bargaining Update 8/26: UC Proposes the Status Quo (and Worse)
UC is at it again. We met with the University on August 26th to continue negotiations for a new and improved AR contract covering Project Scientists, Specialists, Professional Researchers and CPPs, but they had other ideas in mind. We passed the UC several articles...
Update from 8/12 Academic Researcher Bargaining Session
We met with UC on August 12th to continue negotiations for a new and improved AR contract covering Project Scientists, Specialists, Professional Researchers and CPPs. We had prepared several proposals and presentations for this day-long session. We gave the UC a...
Bargaining update: UC proposes effective pay cuts for Academic Researchers
Your Academic Researcher (AR) Bargaining Team has met with UC twice in the past week for negotiations covering Project Scientists, Specialists, Professional Researchers and CPPs. Below are some of the high/low-lights. We will be back at the bargaining table on Friday,...
Bargaining Update from the first days of negotiations for a new AR contract
Bargaining is in Full Swing!We have now had two bargaining sessions with the UC, the kickoff session on June 3rd, and the second session on June 10th. In our first bargaining session we gave UC management’s team an overview of our Initial Bargaining Demands: how the...
Same Issues, Same Table. Demand a fair workplace now!
We have all heard the horror stories: a supervisor belittles a Teaching Assistant (TA) in front of their students and coworkers; an international Student Researcher is unjustly fired and loses their visa; a Postdoc is fired from their lab when they tell their...
REMINDER: Academic Researcher 2022 Bargaining Survey
In order to determine Academic Researchers’ priorities (Project Scientists, Specialists, Professional Researchers and CPPs) for upcoming contract negotiations it’s critical to gather feedback on what issues ARs feel are most important to address. Please click on the...
(Action Needed) Please complete Academic Researcher 2022 Bargaining Survey
We are Academic Researcher members of your union’s executive board and bargaining team. Academic Researchers (Project Scientists, Specialists, Professional Researchers and CPPs) will begin bargaining our next union contract with UC in the spring of 2022. In order to...