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Student Researchers United-UAW
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Student Researchers United is a group of students working in research positions across the University of California organizing to better our working conditions
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EdSource
@EdSource
LISTEN: The largest academic strike in U.S. history ended last month with a landmark agreement between
@UofCalifornia
and graduate student teaching assistants and graduate student researchers. What might it mean for students and colleges outside of the UC?
edsource.org
PODCAST: How significant is the UC’s new contract with graduate student workers?
The largest academic strike in U.S. history ended with a landmark agreement between UC and graduate student teaching assistants and researchers.
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UAW Region 6
@uawregion6
UAW members in Region 6! Join fellow members from across the region to discuss all we have accomplished this year, and to collectively make plans for organizing and building power in the coming years. For more info & to register, contact your Local Union.
Graphic with the text "UAW Region 6 Leadership Meeting, January 21, 10am-5pm, Pico Rivera, CA. Open to all members in Region 6. Options to join remotely will be available." On the right is a photo of about 30 UAW members holding picket signs during the GM strike. A yellow banner at the bottom has a list of the states included in Region 6.
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Student Researchers United-UAW
@sruuaw
"And I can definitely say that our members are paying attention to what UC academic workers have been able to achieve, and are taking a lot of information from it.” - Sam Sumpter, president of the UW academic worker union, UAW 4121
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Minerva Teli
@MinervaTeli
A historic win for academia and union organization. Reflecting on all the hard work so many have put into this strike and I’m incredibly proud to have been a part of it. Solidarity, forever ✊🏽
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UC Student-Workers Union UAW 2865
@uaw2865
Academic Student Employees and Student Researchers ratified our new contracts! The vote breakdown was 11,386 to 7,097 for Academic Student Employees and 10,057 to 4,640 for Student Researchers. #FairUCnow
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@sruuaw
It’s been a long road, up against an employer that tried for decades to keep us from having a union. Today, Student Researchers have a first contract — and thousands of coworkers ready to enforce our new rights and keep fighting for each other. #FairUCnow
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Student Researchers United-UAW
@sruuaw
On Monday, May 24th, Student Researchers from across the University of California system gathered in Oakland to deliver over 10,000 signed union authorization cards to the Public Employment Relations Board (PERB). Watch the video of the action below! #solidarity #ucsru #sruuaw
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Paul
@paul__seibert
What a fantastic win. This strike has been one of the most exciting and rewarding experiences of my life. Our contracts we won will be life changing for myself and many others. Extremely grateful for the hard work everyone has put in and for the friends I made on the picket line.
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UC Student-Workers Union UAW 2865
@uaw2865
Academic Student Employees and Student Researchers ratified our new contracts! The vote breakdown was 11,386 to 7,097 for Academic Student Employees and 10,057 to 4,640 for Student Researchers. #FairUCnow
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Sarah Arveson (UNION MADE)
@stealyrcarbon
Fighting for a union in grad school, all I wanted so desperately was a grievance procedure. To see grad workers at UC win some of the strongest workplace protections in addition to the money and benefits in this strike… I am so damn proud to fight w/
@uaw2865
@UAW5810
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UC Student-Workers Union UAW 2865
@uaw2865
Academic Student Employees and Student Researchers ratified our new contracts! The vote breakdown was 11,386 to 7,097 for Academic Student Employees and 10,057 to 4,640 for Student Researchers. #FairUCnow
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DSA-LA 🌹
@dsa_losangeles
Congratulations to the workers at UCLA and across the UC system on ratifying their contracts! Organizing and striking get results! Let’s keep building the movement across LA.
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UC Student-Workers Union UAW 2865
@uaw2865
Academic Student Employees and Student Researchers ratified our new contracts! The vote breakdown was 11,386 to 7,097 for Academic Student Employees and 10,057 to 4,640 for Student Researchers. #FairUCnow
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@iamastrangebool
I am so honored to have been able to help make this happen, and I am so appreciative of the tireless work of my coworkers who got us these historic wins!! We have a contract!!!!!!
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UC Student-Workers Union UAW 2865
@uaw2865
Academic Student Employees and Student Researchers ratified our new contracts! The vote breakdown was 11,386 to 7,097 for Academic Student Employees and 10,057 to 4,640 for Student Researchers. #FairUCnow
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Student Researchers United-UAW
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An important perspective from four international workers on the SRU and UAW2865 who have been fighting a long battle for NRST remission, and share a vision to continue this fight beyond this contract.
We started organizing with our union in 2019, when the UC tried to hike Non Residential Supplemental Tuition (NRST) for international students, and we successfully stopped them from doing so for graduate student workers. We then helped build the statewide international student committee, fighting against travel bans and other xenophobic policies during the pandemic, and successfully won extensions to the 3-year waiver for post-candidacy international Ph.D. students who had their progress toward their degree delayed because of the Covid-19 pandemic. These organizing efforts, along with learning about the experiences of international workers who are burdened by NRST, led us to advocate to center NRST as part of our contract demands in this bargaining cycle. We knew that this would be an uphill battle from the beginning. Read more here:https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wYwYWqzPW7q6VLPgk3qLxnJjIoR7VWV5jrwAvQONYfo/edit?usp=sharing
Codifying existing remission policies is a monumental step in building parity for international graduate workers. It will allow us to enforce these remissions, and allow us to file and win grievances for other past practices, ensuring continuation of remission policies. We understand that this win on the NRST front is limited, and falls short of our initial bargaining demands. However, this is nonetheless a victory that UC massively resisted at the bargaining table. After verbally agreeing, they attempted to take this provision out of the final written mediated proposals, and we had to insist it be included. Getting this language into the final deal is a significant victory because it will lay down the groundwork for our next fight in two years’ time, where we can demand for an extension of this protection, just like how we moved from partial campus fee remissions to full campus fee remissions in this bargaining cycle. Read more: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wYwYWqzPW7q6VLPgk3qL
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Anna Jo Muhich
@AnnaJoMuhich
I am so excited to vote yes on this contract tomorrow. Let’s go
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tanzil (vote #UnionMADE on 4/26!)
@only_tanz
Last night, the SRU-UAW and UAW 2865 Bargaining Teams voted to tentatively agree to new contracts for ASEs and Student Researchers. The teams, including myself personally, recommend you vote YES to ratify both agreements. The vote begins on Monday, 8AM. My feelings below. 1/n
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Sarafina El-Badry Nance
@starstrickenSF
after the largest academic worker strike in US history, UC’s grad student workers reached an incredible tentative agreement. once we ratify, with a 57% base wage increase, 8 week parental/medical pto, and more, this contract will change lives + set new precedents across academia.
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solidarity.
@ucbsolidarity
Our unions, UAW 2865 and SRU-UAW just secured a BILLION dollar package by TAing a proposal from UC. As a direct result of our strike power, we forced President Drake to make major concessions!!! These include: (1/5)
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