by uaw5810 | Sep 15, 2022 | Bargaining, Climate Justice, Updates
As California recovers from an extended, record-setting heatwave, UC Academic Workers are at the bargaining table fighting for clean transit benefits. Academic Researchers, Academic Student Employees, Postdocs, and Student Researchers have all proposed a solution that...
by uaw5810 | Sep 7, 2022 | Bargaining, Postdoc Bargaining 2021, Updates
ICYMI: Recently in bargaining, UC’s team stated that they will be making a childcare subsidy proposal, which UC Postdocs have been fighting to win for many years. UC’s previous broken promises and inaction on this issue mean that we’ve got to ramp up the pressure to...
by uaw5810 | Aug 31, 2022 | AR Bargaining 2022, Bargaining, Updates
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...
by uaw5810 | Aug 30, 2022 | Bargaining, Postdoc Bargaining 2021, Updates
During last Thursday’s bargaining session (our first since the beginning of August) we finally saw movement from UC on some of our highest priorities! Here are the highlights: CHILDCARE: After years of Postdocs organizing to win a childcare subsidy, UC’s team verbally...
by uaw5810 | Aug 16, 2022 | AR Bargaining 2022, Bargaining, Updates
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...
by uaw5810 | Jul 29, 2022 | Bargaining, Postdoc Bargaining 2021, Updates
How do we harness our collective strength as unionized academic employees to fight climate change? At the bargaining table, all four UAW-represented units at UC (Postdocs, Academic Researchers, Teaching Assistants and Student Researchers) have proposed measures to...
