by UAW2865 | Mar 12, 2020 | Anti-Sexual Harassment/Sexual Violence
Yesterday, 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 2865 and...
by UAW2865 | Mar 9, 2020 | #COLA4All, Wages and fair pay
This past week, UAW 2865 members voted overwhelmingly to ratify the COLA4All Bargaining Demands with 97% voting yes. Here are the full results: CampusVoting YesVoting NoTotal Member Votes Cast% Voting YesBerkeley6511967097%Davis325833398%Irvine250325399%Los...
by UAW2865 | Mar 6, 2020 | #COLA4All, Wages and fair pay
Santa Cruz – Assemblymember Mark Stone (D-Monterey), whose district includes UC Santa Cruz, was joined by ten of his colleagues today in sending a letter to University of California President Janet Napolitano encouraging “the University to reopen the collective...
by UAW2865 | Mar 3, 2020 | Anti-Sexual Harassment/Sexual Violence
Yesterday the elected Bargaining Team members from each campus came together to make a major decision: calling for a membership strike authorization vote over UC’s Unfair Labor Practices. We decided that the ULPs UC has committed are so severe, including the...
by UAW2865 | Mar 2, 2020 | #COLA4All
“Rather than firing workers for standing up for fair wages to meet the high cost of housing they should sit down with the Union and bargain for a COLA and a fair resolution,” said Kavitha Iyengar, UAW 2865’s President. Berkeley – UAW Local 2865, the union...