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Another core demand of our strike is the removal of non-resident supplemental tuition (NRST) for grad workers in the UC. The current TA only codifies existing practice, i.e. it makes no material improvement. What makes this demand so hard to win? What are the stakes here? 🧵
This was a major demand for a large portion of the grad workers. The TA delivers very little on that demand. If intl workers vote in high numbers, they have the potential to be decisive. Will they vote at all? If so, will they base their vote on the NRST provision?
This fall term, a full 33% of doctoral students at UC were “non-resident international,” numbering nearly 10,000 total. This is to say nothing of international master’s students, professional students, or undergrads covered by the contract.
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This piece is an important exploration of the links between social density and mobilization.
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A graduate student (Eylem Taylan) brought this piece up as we discussed a problem on campus in relation to the mobilization #UCstrike #FairUCnow:
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A graduate student (Eylem Taylan) brought this piece up as we discussed a problem on campus in relation to the mobilization #UCstrike #FairUCnow:
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Dwindling friendship ties among undergraduate students render a pro-strike organization among undergrads very difficult. Even the most active of students knows relatively few people.
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I had been thinking about the need for an updated criticism of Putnam for a while, especially in light of @gscheiring's and Larry King's research and theorization:
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Now that we’re to the point where I am being vague-threatened by my employers in order to break the on-going #FairUCNow strike by @uaw2865/ @sruuaw, I feel the need to add my voice, as faculty.
Thread below 🧵👇
Thread below 🧵👇
Yesterday, we, the faculty in the UC system, received an email to give “systemwide guidance” as we bring to a close the third week of strikes for our graduate students. This “guidance” included vague language conflating picking up struck labor with going on strike.
The email:
news.ucsc.edu/2022/12/regard…
Faculty Assoc. response:
cucfa.org/2022/12/respon…
Some of the relevant “guidance” here (note, I am taking full advantage of the suggestion in screenshot 3):
news.ucsc.edu/2022/12/regard…
Faculty Assoc. response:
cucfa.org/2022/12/respon…
Some of the relevant “guidance” here (note, I am taking full advantage of the suggestion in screenshot 3):
A thread 🧵 on all the ways that @UofCalifornia is relying on faculty to break the #FairUCNow strike by @uaw2865/ @sruuaw. Faculty: do not fall prey to these tactics! Refuse to do struck work, and consider not submitting course grades for classes with striking TAs and graders.
Individual @UofCalifornia departments, including staff at the @UCLA Physics Department, are reaching out to their undergraduates, offering them money to scab for striking TAs and RAs by proctoring and grading final exams. Undergrads should refuse to do this!
Press Release: #UC Disabled Student Workers Reject Tentative Agreement, form “Justice Coalition” demanding Cost of Living Adjustment, Access Needs, and COVID specific protections in @uaw2865 @sruuaw @UAW5810 contracts
#FairUCNow #NoCOLANoContract👇🏽
docs.google.com/document/d/e/2…
#FairUCNow #NoCOLANoContract👇🏽
docs.google.com/document/d/e/2…
@AccessUc on urgency of Universal Online Access: "Online accessibility is crucial now at a time when UC has increased barriers to accessibility in general as well having dropped mask mandates, refused to renovate old building HVAC to MERV-13 or above and phased out PCR testing"
Student workers have proposed a revolutionary "Access Needs" article, which builds on and strengthens the language of the existing “Reasonable Accommodations” article in the previous UAW 2865 contract. docs.google.com/document/d/e/2…
For those that missed it there was just an hours-long caucus with 200+ disabled UAW2865 workers begging our bargaining team not to sell us out on the Access Needs article & stay strong against UC’s bad faith bargaining & ableism #UCAccessNow #FairUCNow (1/
Worker after worker shared their horrific experiences with ableism at the UC and explained how we need this article. It was an incredible, intersectional showing of community care and love. The BT votes at 7 about whether to sacrifice us.
I hope they heard us. (2/2)
I hope they heard us. (2/2)
Addendum: here is a statement from the UAW Disability Justice Committee (along with @AccessUc helped compose these articles) about why we need to stay in solidarity with disabled workers docs.google.com/document/d/1aG…
🚨 UC POSTDOCS OF @UAW5810 SETTING NEW INDUSTRY STANDARDS ONCE AGAIN! 🚨 (a 🧵)
Postdocs and Academic Researchers reached a Tentative Agreement on a contract last night. I want to highlight some of the transformative Postdoc gains in this TA:
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Postdocs and Academic Researchers reached a Tentative Agreement on a contract last night. I want to highlight some of the transformative Postdoc gains in this TA:
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Compensation: Most Postdocs will receive a 20% salary increase by Oct 2023, with 7.2% yearly increases for at-scale postdocs thereafter, making the median Postdoc salary at UC among the highest if not the highest at universities the country. (2/11)
Family benefits: 8 weeks of fully paid parental leave for birthing and non-birthing parents, eligible immediately upon appointment (no FMLA req)— a doubling of the status quo; together w/the first ever $2500/yr Postdoc childcare benefit that increases yearly (3/11)
UC pays me $2382 per month and charges me $1221 per month in rent. What the hell is "fair" about deliberate and calculated rent burden imposed by a multibillion $ institution? (1/9)
Let's be clear - we don't work 50% time for UC. We work 100% time, often more. All our research, publications, conference presentations, grants, and fellowships directly benefit the university, yet are currently completely uncompensated. (2/9)
I have no guaranteed summer funding so 1/4 of the year I'm left to fend for myself, even as I am expected to continue churning out research and publications with absolutely no financial support. (3/9)
Watch this 🧵with videos from bargaining team members from all four bargaining teams answering some FAQs! Or find them all here: fairucnow.org/bteams/
#FairUCnow
#FairUCnow
Who's on the bargaining teams?
How did we get here?
THREAD OF RESOURCES FOR UC FACULTY IN SUPPORT OF UC WORKERS #FairUCNow
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1. Sign the @uc_faculty statement of support and read their FAQ!
Sign:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…
Read:
cucfa.org/2022/11/faqs-f…
Sign:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…
Read:
cucfa.org/2022/11/faqs-f…
2. In the strike, email admin/department head/ college dean/UC president - Tell them the breadth of impacts the strike is having on your lab, and encourage them to bargain fairly with us so we can all come back to the work we love.
Template:
docs.google.com/document/d/17o…
Template:
docs.google.com/document/d/17o…
When 48,000 UAW Academic Workers go on strike on Monday, Nov 14, senate faculty at the University of California have a legally-protected right under the Higher Education Employment Relations Act (HEERA) to respect the picket line. Some reasons + resources for showing solidarity:
This is a strike FAQ for senate faculty, which lays out why workers are striking, how we have a right to honor the picket line, and how you can show solidarity with the strike. It's pretty comprehensive, but some highlights in the thread. bit.ly/UCfacultystrik…
Let's start with some facts: 92% of grad workers and 61% of postdocs are rent burdened; more than 40% spend > 1/2 their income on rent. Amidst a statewide housing crisis, the UC has provided few affordable solutions and in fact capitalizes off the crisis: fairucnow.org/cola/
