UAW calls for student debt cancellation
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...
Bargaining update 6/23: Do you want UC’s pay cut or do we fight for a massive raise?
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...
Bargaining Update from the first days of negotiations for a new AR contract
Bargaining is in Full Swing!We have now had two bargaining sessions with the UC, the kickoff session on June 3rd, and the second session on June 10th. In our first bargaining session we gave UC management’s team an overview of our Initial Bargaining Demands: how the...
UAW 5810 Resolution in Support of Mt. Sinai Postdocs
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...
Have you experienced workplace bullying at UC?
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...
Bargaining update 5/26 and 6/2: What Postdocs are Fighting For
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...
Spring 2022 Vacancy and Delegate Election Results
We are writing to you with information on the Spring 2022 Vacancy and Delegate Election. There is one contested position, and the election will proceed as planned on Wednesday, June 1st, 2022. The election will take place for the following position: San Diego Postdoc...
Nominations for UAW 5810 Vacancy and Delegate Election
Your union is holding a Vacancy & Delegates Election to fill vacant Executive Board and Joint Council, and Delegate positions. The nomination period starts today and ends on May 18, 2022, at 5pm PDT. The election will take place on June 1, 2022.Note: this email...
Bargaining update: Was this session an early April Fool’s prank?
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...
Bargaining update: UC Shows Up Late and Empty-Handed
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...