Berkeley, CA – UAW 2865, the union that represents more than 19,000 Academic Student Employees at the University of California, announced today that all Graduate Student Instructors (GSIs) teaching in the Online or On-Campus Masters of Public Health (OOMPH) program at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health will receive tuition remission and health care coverage […]
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Covid-19 Crisis Makes One Thing Clear: We Need a COLA Now More Than Ever
By Tom Hintze, UAW 2865 Northern Vice President The Covid-19 crisis that is destabilizing our world is having a dramatic impact on workers at the University of California. At every campus, UC – our state’s largest employer – is now making fast and unilateral changes to how and where we work to limit the spread […]
Members Overwhelmingly Ratify COLA4All Bargaining Demands
This past week, UAW 2865 members voted overwhelmingly to ratify the COLA4All Bargaining Demands with 97% voting yes. Here are the full results: Campus Voting Yes Voting No Total Member Votes Cast % Voting Yes Berkeley 651 19 670 97% Davis 325 8 333 98% Irvine 250 3 253 99% Los Angeles 510 10 520 […]
11 CALIFORNIA ASSEMBLYMEMBERS, LED BY ASM. MARK STONE, ENCOURAGE NAPOLITANO TO BARGAIN WITH UAW 2865
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 bargaining agreement and begin negotiating with UAW Local 2865 so that common ground can be reached […]
UAW 2865 STATEMENT ON 54 TERMINATED SANTA CRUZ WORKERS
“Today we stand 100% in solidarity with those who were terminated at Santa Cruz,” said Kavitha Iyengar, President of UAW Local 2865, the union that represents more than 19,000 academic workers across the University of California system, including those who were fired. “We are shocked by UC’s callousness, and by the violence that so many […]