UAW 2865 actively pushes legislation in Sacramento and in Washington D.C. that benefits Academic Student Employees, and as a public sector union, we know that it is critical for UAW 2865 to support candidates and ballot initiatives that will create better working conditions for us at the University of California. That’s why we are polling […]
Political Engagement
Our political engagement committee is launching a statewide effort to coordinate our legislative work and we need your help. As a response to UCPath, we sponsored legislation to end UC’s wage theft exemptions from California’s wage and hour law. In 2019 this bill passed state senate.
We are hoping to next work to lobby and advance bills on issues of importance to our membership, such as a climate change legislation. As a first step, we conducted a survey of our membership and are using it to direct our next steps.
Elected leaders of UAW 2865 meet with Rep Katie Porter (D-CA), a professor at UC Irvine, after her 2018 election to the US House of Representatives.
UAW 2865 Endorses the Green New Deal to Protect Workers and Strengthen Labor
IRVINE, CA—At their quarterly meeting Friday, the Joint Council of United Automobile Workers (UAW) Local 2865 voted decisively to endorse H.R. 109, the Green New Deal resolution co-sponsored by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Sen. Edward Markey (D-MA). By endorsing the Green New Deal, UAW 2865 joins a broad range of labor unions from many […]