by uaw5810 | Jun 6, 2022 | Bargaining, Postdoc Bargaining 2021, Updates
Bargaining Highlights from 5/26 and 6/2 We exchanged proposals on Respectful Work Environment (Anti-Bullying) but UC continues to include provisions that would render the article toothless like eliminating all meaningful timelines for resolution. This is unacceptable...
by uaw5810 | Mar 31, 2022 | Bargaining, Postdoc Bargaining 2021, Updates
Bargaining Update from 3/30Once again, UC’s team made us wait 45 minutes after our bargaining session was scheduled to begin. This is routinely a waste of our time that we could be using to conduct our research. They passed a meaningless proposal on Parking and...
by uaw5810 | Mar 24, 2022 | Bargaining, Fighting Discrimination and Harassment, Postdoc Bargaining 2021
Bargaining Update from 3/23We had a bargaining session yesterday on Wednesday, 3/23. UC’s bargaining team first made us wait half an hour (25% of our scheduled session) before they ultimately arrived at the bargaining table with no proposals despite having over 3...
by uaw5810 | Mar 8, 2022 | AR Bargaining 2022, Bargaining, Fighting Discrimination and Harassment, Gender Equity in Academia, Housing, Postdoc Bargaining 2021
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...
by uaw5810 | Feb 25, 2022 | Bargaining, Postdoc Bargaining 2021, Updates
Bargaining Update from the week of 2/21We had two bargaining sessions this week, on Tuesday, 2/22 and on Thursday, 2/24. On Tuesday, we reached tentative agreements on 4 articles(!): Individual Development Plans, Progress Assessments, Professional Development and...
by uaw5810 | Feb 21, 2022 | Bargaining, Postdoc Bargaining 2021, Updates
Bargaining Update from the week of 2/14We had two bargaining sessions last week, on Tuesday 2/15 and on Friday 2/18. We passed a proposal on Leaves of Absence which would expand our paid family leave benefit to 12 weeks and ensure that all parental leave is at 100%...
