by uaw5810 | Aug 15, 2022 | Elections, Updates
Your union is holding a Vacancy Election to fill vacant Executive Board and Joint Council positions. The nomination period starts today and ends on Aug 24, 2022, at 5pm PDT. The election will take place on September 7, 2022. EXECUTIVE BOARD NOMINATIONSAll UAW 5810...
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 30, 2022 | AR Bargaining 2022, Bargaining, Updates
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,...
by uaw5810 | Jun 24, 2022 | Fighting Discrimination and Harassment, Updates
Earlier today the Supreme Court officially released an opinion which overturns Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that has protected the right to choose to have an abortion. This decision is an assault on women’s equality, bodily autonomy, and reproductive justice, and...
by uaw5810 | Jun 23, 2022 | Fighting Discrimination and Harassment, Updates
While Academic Researchers, Postdocs, TAs, Tutors, Readers and Student Researchers are all fighting at the bargaining table to make UC a more fair and equitable workplace, UAW members are also fighting to fix the broken higher education system by canceling...
