by uaw5810 | Mar 26, 2020 | Updates, Visas/Immigration
We met yesterday with UC via videoconference to bargain over changes in our working conditions due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Prior to the call, we developed bargaining demands; you can read the Postdoc demands here and the Academic Researcher demands here. During our...
by uaw5810 | Mar 12, 2020 | Updates, Visas/Immigration
On Wednesday, the World Health Organization announced the Coronavirus/COVID-19 outbreak is a global pandemic. Every campus in the UC system has announced that instruction and exams will be moved online for some period of time to avert further transmission. UAW 5810...
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 | Jan 3, 2019 | Bargaining, Fighting Discrimination and Harassment, Gender Equity in Academia, Science Funding and Policy, Updates, Victories, Visas/Immigration
Postdoc Union members at our statewide membership meeting in October. 2018 was a big year for our union — starting salaries went up by over $2500, we successfully enforced our rights and pushed for pro-science policies, we nearly doubled in size with the...
