by uaw5810 | Jun 10, 2022 | Postdoc Bargaining 2021, Updates
UAW Local 5810, the Union of 7,000 Postdocs and 5,000 Academic Researchers at the University of California, strongly supports Mt. Sinai Postdocs’ right to vote for Sinai Postdoctoral Organizing Committee-UAW as their union without interference from the Sinai...
by uaw5810 | Jun 9, 2022 | Bargaining, Postdoc Bargaining 2021, Updates
Have you experienced bullying or other abusive conduct in the workplace? If so, you’re not alone. Please check out this op-ed that two Student Researchers and one Teaching Assistant wrote about their experience with bullying at UCSD and how they fought back through...
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...
