by uaw5810 | Sep 19, 2022 | AR Bargaining 2022, Bargaining, Cross Unit Bargaining, Postdoc Bargaining 2021, Updates
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...
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 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 | 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...
by uaw5810 | Jul 18, 2022 | Bargaining, Postdoc Bargaining 2021, Updates
Update on Compensation/Benefits proposals At last week’s session, we made a new proposal on Compensation that included significantly raising the minimum starting salary to $70,000 in line with National Academy of Sciences recommendations on Postdoc pay, as well...
by uaw5810 | Jun 23, 2022 | Bargaining, Postdoc Bargaining 2021, Updates
UC proposed an awful economic package in bargaining yesterday and is now advertising it as an across-the-board increase. This is a LIE. Here’s why: In their first compensation proposal in October 2021, UC offered raises of a mere 3%, which would have translated to...
