March 8, 2022
We have all heard the horror stories: a supervisor belittles a Teaching Assistant (TA) in front of their students and coworkers; an international Student Researcher is unjustly fired and loses their visa; a Postdoc is fired from their lab when they tell their supervisor they are pregnant.
As we enter contract negotiations together, 48,000 academic workers at UC are fighting for a university where anyone can thrive. We are fighting for material conditions that support workers: fair pay, safe housing, healthcare for our families. And we are also fighting for protections that allow us to teach and conduct research without fear of harassment, discrimination, or bullying.
Academic workers are demanding a joint bargaining table to make UC negotiate with all of us over the workplace injustices that we face.
SIGN THE DEMAND FOR A JOINT TABLE
Bargaining together gives us more power to end abuse in academia and make an equitable UC. Let’s end this abuse by making our demands loud and clear!
In solidarity,
Anne Sapiro
Postdoc – Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
Campus Recording Secretary, UAW 5810
Gaby Barrios
Department of Spanish and Portuguese, UC Los Angeles
Recording Secretary, UAW 2865
Gloria Denise Ligunas
Department of Quantitative & Systems Biology, UC Merced
Bargaining Team member, Student Researchers United-UAW
Mia Carmen Villegas
Academic Researcher – Department of Psychological Sciences and Social Ecology
Campus Recording Secretary, UAW 5810