by Student Researchers | Jul 8, 2021 | Updates
Harassment and discrimination are pervasive in higher education and at UC, where 59% of Student Researchers surveyed have witnessed harassment or discrimination. While UC verbally commits to equitable labs and workplaces, they offer very little remedy when faced with...
by Student Researchers | Jun 23, 2021 | Updates
We’re very happy to launch the first Student Researchers United bargaining survey! Completing this survey will help build our collective understanding of what improvements are important to SRs, and collect more ideas and feedback. CLICK TO TAKE THE BARGAINING SURVEY...
by Student Researchers | Jun 17, 2021 | Updates
June 17, 2021 The process of winning recognition of our union – after which we will be able to bargain with UC – took another step forward last night. Late last night, UC furnished a partial list of GSRs and GSARs in the central payroll system to the...
by Student Researchers | Jun 10, 2021 | Updates
Wow, Student Researchers really made the headlines with the May 24th card delivery in Oakland! Some of the news stories about the action are linked below. Be on the lookout for continued press coverage of SRU-UAW and the fight for an SR union! Daily...
by Student Researchers | Jun 3, 2021 | Updates
BY HANNAH HOLZER Sacramento Bee, June 03, 2021 12:00 PM In May of 2017, Holly Gildea, a 23-year-old graduate student researcher in neuroscience at UC Berkeley, was working in her thesis lab when she sustained a chemical burn on her leg and hand. A freezer in Gildea’s...
