UAW 2865

UAW Local 2865 - 19,000 Student workers strong

Anti-Sexual Harassment/Sexual Violence

UAW 2865 won new and groundbreaking protections against sexual harassment and racial discrimination in our 2018-2022 contract.

The #MeToo movement has focused attention on the rampant sexual harassment student workers face, with many cases at the University of California highlighting the failure of administrators to remove harassers and ensure the protection of survivors and their careers.

As part of this movement, UAW 2865 members mobilized during contract negotiations and won survivor-centered protections which can be pursued as alternatives to the flawed Title IX process. The new discrimination protections include interim measures so that student-workers who have reported harassment or discrimination can continue working and learning in a safe environment. The campaign also won the right of student-workers to choose to use the Union grievance process concurrently with a Title IX investigation.

To continue the movement and to ensure that these new rights are enforced and available to all student workers on UC campuses, join your coworkers in the statewide Sexual Harassment & Sexual Violence committee.

Have you or a colleague experienced–or are currently experiencing–sexual or racial discrimination in the workplace? Contact your union.

End Human Rights Abuses in Palestine

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We join US and international labor organizations in expressing our sadness and our outrage at the Israeli military’s actions this past week in Palestine that began with forced evictions in Sheikh Jarrah and a violent attack on worshippers at the Al-Aqsa mosque, and the curtailment of Palestinian trade union activity. The events of this past week are not novel – they are part of the long-standing occupation of Palestinian lands that have used the tactics of violence and erasure to tell the world the false story that one people’s liberation requires another’s subjugation. We reject this.

As unionists, we believe that an injury to one is an injury to all. A commitment to the principles of unionism means we must embody this axiom in our workplace, our communities, and our global outlook. The labor movement must support the human rights of all people: safety, housing, employment, education. In this spirit we condemn evictions, occupation, and military aggression, and we stand with those fighting for peace, freedom, and equality. 

We call on our elected representatives to dismantle the structures of ongoing violence that enable displacement and police terror in Palestine, in the US, and across the globe. House Resolution 2590, supported by civil society organizations, unionists, and union allies, would end U.S. funding for the Israeli human rights abuses. 

We call for the passage of HR 2590 (The Palestinian Children & Families Act) alongside the Adalah Justice Project, CODEPINK, the U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights, and Representatives Pramila Jayapal, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Cori Bush, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib and others. 

We support Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network in their call for an international Day of Action on Tuesday, May 18 in solidarity with the Palestinian uprising and general strike. Find ways to take action and support the general strike in Palestine from where you are, and a calendar of ongoing solidarity actions across the world here. 

We recommit ourselves to the ongoing struggle for workers’ rights everywhere.

Find resources and ways to help at Jewish Voice for Peace and Islamic Relief Canada. Call on Secretary of State Tony Blinken to end the forced displacement of Palestinians from East Jerusalem. 

UAW 2865 Executive Board

March Executive Board Meeting

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The March Monthly Executive Board Meeting will take place Monday, March 29th from 12-2pm.

  1. Maryland Solidarity Letter (12-12:05)
  2. Organizing Updates (12:10-1:00)
    1. Organizing 
    2. Housing 
    3. International
    4. Anti-Policing 
    5. GND 
    6. Political Organizing 
  3. Legislative updates
    1. Bills to endorse/oppose
  4. Arbitrations (1:00-1:30)
  5. Administrative and Financial Updates (1:30-1:45)

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Monthly Executive Board Meeting

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The February Monthly Executive Board Meeting will take place Thursday, February 25th at 1pm. Zoom info below:

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UAW 2865 and UC meet in Day 1 of Public Employee Relations Board Hearing

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Oakland, CA – UAW 2865, the union that represents more than 19,000 academic workers at the University of California, faced off with University of California administrators in a hearing Tuesday, December 1, at California’s Public Employment Relations Board at 10am. At issue are what the union alleges were the university’s illegal actions to circumvent their collective bargaining relationship. After astronomical increases in the cost of living for academic workers and a lack of regulations in California’s housing market, the university failed to address the cost of living crisis for academic workers, and a wildcat strike at UC Santa Cruz ensued. In an attempt to resolve its dispute with wildcat strikers, the university met directly with workers and with a third party, bypassing the union and offering workers inadequate housing stipends that were outside the guarantee of the union contract. 

“The university’s actions in response to the strike grossly violated the rights of their workers by disrespecting their democratically elected representative – the union,” said Kavitha Iyengar, President of UAW 2865. “As union members, we must hold the university accountable for the hostile actions they took against our union, and that means demonstrating that the university must bargain with the union over issues related to housing.”

The hearing represents a continuation of the fallout from the wildcat strike. Earlier this summer, after marathon negotiations and pressure from thousands of members of UAW 2865, the university agreed to rehire 54 workers who were fired in the spring for their role in the wildcat strike. 

The current conflict is the latest struggle for better working conditions for academic workers, a fight that has become more urgent since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. 

“Improving our living conditions has always been a struggle for ASEs, but with remote learning at UC, our living conditions are literally our working conditions, and they are our students’ learning conditions,” said Gaby Barrios, the union’s Sergeant-at-Arms. “We will keep fighting to hold UC accountable to its workers and students, and to win high quality benefits, but we can only do this by taking mass collective action. That’s how we got our co-workers their jobs back this summer and that’s how we’ll win a more equitable university.”