March 10, 2021
Please join me in attending the online Housing Justice Conference co-organized by our union TODAY – Wednesday, March 10 from 5-6:30pm. This will be an exciting event to kick off actions to win housing justice for academic workers across the West Coast! Click here to register and you’ll be sent a zoom link!
Best,
Stephanie Purnell
Junior Specialist
UCSF Sound and Music Perception Lab
West Coast Housing Justice Conference
What: Housing justice action conference co-hosted by UAW 5810, UAW 2865, UAW 4121, and UAW 4123
When: March 10 from 5-6:30pm
How to join: RSVP here!
Postdocs and Academic Researchers are overwhelmingly rent burdened: meaning we pay over 30% and often over 50% of our wages in rent. We’re not the only group of workers to suffer from the housing affordability crisis, and California is not the only state where this is a major problem.
Skyrocketing housing costs are rooted in actions by powerful landlords, and this includes Universities in major cities. Along with other unionized academic workers across the West Coast, Postdoc and ARs have started organizing together to win housing justice by pressuring major landlords — including Universities — to take responsibility for their role in driving up housing costs.
Join this growing coalition on March 10 at 5:00 p.m. for a meeting to identify big ideas for doing this work and to start developing action plans with other UAW members from California and Washington. It’s important that this conversation include a representative group from every city who experience the housing problem in different ways. RSVP here to receive the Zoom information, and email uaw5810@uaw5810.org if you have any questions.