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COVID-19: Your Union, Your Rights
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...
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: CampusVoting YesVoting NoTotal Member Votes Cast% Voting YesBerkeley6511967097%Davis325833398%Irvine250325399%Los...
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 Team Calls for a Membership Strike Authorization Vote Over UC’s Unfair Labor Practices
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...
UAW 2865 FILES ADDITIONAL UNFAIR LABOR PRACTICE CHARGES AGAINST UC, CONVENES BARGAINING TEAM TO CONSIDER AN UNFAIR LABOR PRACTICE STRIKE AUTHORIZATION VOTE
“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 that...
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....
UC STUDENT WORKER UNION FILES UNFAIR LABOR PRACTICE CHARGE AGAINST THE UNIVERSITY
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Berkeley – Late yesterday, UAW 2865, the union for more than 19,000 student workers at the University of California, filed an Unfair Labor Practice charge (ULP) against the University of California at the Public Employment Relations Board’s...
Sign the Petition! UC: Bargain with the Union Now! The Rent is Too Damn High!
NAPOLITANO SHOULD BARGAIN WITH THE UNION THAT REPRESENTS STRIKING GRAD WORKERS, NOT CIRCUMVENT IT, TO MAKE PROGRESS ON COLA
Wed 2/12: Rally for Campus Housing Affordability at UC Berkeley and UC Davis
On Wednesday 2/12 at 1pm UAW 2865 members will rally for campus housing affordability with coalition partners and other campus community members. Recent spikes in the cost of housing mean that many academic workers are now spending in excess of 60% of their salaries...