by uaw5810 | Apr 5, 2019 | Fighting Discrimination and Harassment, Gender Equity in Academia, Updates, Visas/Immigration
UC San Diego Postdocs deliver a letter to UCSD Administration on behalf of a Postdoc grievant. Let’s say it’s your one-year anniversary as a Postdoc. You have been looking forward to the salary increase guaranteed by our contract, but when you look at your...
by uaw5810 | Mar 25, 2019 | Bargaining, Updates
Last Friday, after months of stalling, UC finally dropped its opposition to Academic Researchers United / UAW Local 5810. This means that the path is now clear for UC Academic Researchers (ARs) to be certified by the Public Employment Relations Board and begin...
by uaw5810 | Mar 20, 2019 | Bargaining, Updates
Earlier this year, a group of Academic Researchers and Postdocs reached out to our state and congressional leaders to let them know that UC was stalling on recognizing ARs’ union. Yesterday, thanks to collective action, twenty members of Congress led by...
by uaw5810 | Mar 19, 2019 | Bargaining, Updates
Last Friday, thanks to outreach by Academic Researchers (Project Scientists, Researchers, Specialists, and Coordinators of Public Programs) over the past few weeks, state legislators representing UC campuses sent a letter to UC President Janet Napolitano urging UC to...
by uaw5810 | Mar 4, 2019 | Bargaining, Updates
UC Academic Researchers unveiled their Initial Bargaining Demands today! Click here to read: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/ARU-IBD-Public These demands are based on feedback from over 2,400 bargaining surveys completed by a majority of ARs, as well as campus meetings...
by uaw5810 | Feb 19, 2019 | Bargaining, Updates
Today, our Union’s president Anke Schennink, UC Academic Researchers and members of our sister local, UAW 2865, met with Congresswoman Katie Porter today to discuss UC’s refusal to recognize more than 5,000 Academic Researchers who voted to join our union....
