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Monday, July 27, 2020

UC student worker union files unfair labor practice charge against UC system

UC Berkeley graduate students alleged that various campus departments have informed students that they must reside in the country to work as GSIs in the fall.

United Auto Workers Local 2865 filed an unfair labor practice charge Monday alleging that the UC system violated its labor contract by making a decision to only hire UC Berkeley graduate students residing in the United States for the upcoming fall semester.
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National

Wednesday, April 29, 2020

United Auto Workers locals call for increased federal research funding, better worker protection amid COVID-19 pandemic

A national coalition of United Auto Workers, or UAW, locals is lobbying for increased federal research funding and better worker protection amid the COVID-19 pandemic, as announced in a press release Monday.
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Campus

Tuesday, March 10, 2020

Labor stoppage to begin after UC Berkeley COLA General Assembly vote

The Berkeley Cost of Living Adjustment, or COLA, General Assembly passed two votes Monday regarding a potential wildcat strike in support of a COLA for all UC graduate students.
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Thursday, March 5, 2020

UC graduate student worker union to hold vote on official statewide strike

The bargaining team of United Auto Workers Local 2865 voted unanimously for a unionwide unfair labor practice strike authorization vote to take place early April.
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Tuesday, March 3, 2020

Graduate student worker union, UC file unfair labor practice charges against each other

United Auto Workers, or UAW, Local 2865 — the union that represents UC graduate student instructors, teaching assistants, readers and tutors — filed unfair labor practice charges against the UC system Feb. 27 and March 2, after weeks of system-wide protests in support of a cost of living adjustment.
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Wednesday, February 26, 2020

UC graduate students rebuff university concession, reaffirm demands

Graduate students from several UC campuses and UC Berkeley undergraduates met for a “Cal COLA: Pay Us More UCB” general assembly meeting to discuss protest plans and a reaffirmation of their demands.
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Campus

Wednesday, January 15, 2020

GSIs, TAs to receive retroactive fee remission from UC Berkeley

After two years of negotiations, a union grievance has been settled that will result in significant compensation for some student instructors who were previously denied tuition and fee remission from UC Berkeley.
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Campus

Tuesday, October 1, 2019

Chancellor Christ announces Graduate Student Diversity Task Force

To increase diversity among campus graduate students, Chancellor Christ announced the implementation of the Graduate Student Diversity Task Force.
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National

Wednesday, July 24, 2019

UC Berkeley research examines effects of minimum wage increases

A 2018 study co-authored by Anna Godøy, research economist at the UC Berkeley Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics, found that when wages increase, there is little to no impact on job loss or growth.
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Wednesday, July 24, 2019

Union groups rally at UCSF, meet with UCSD chancellor to discuss rights for academic researchers

As part of an ongoing bargaining process with the UC system, one group from the Academic Researchers United/United Automobile Workers Local 5810 union rallied outside UCSF’s Genentech Hall while another group met with UC San Diego Chancellor Pradeep Khosla to discuss the objectives and challenges of academic researchers, or ARs.
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Topics

UC student worker union files unfair labor practice charge against UC system

United Auto Workers locals call for increased federal research funding, better worker protection amid COVID-19 pandemic

Labor stoppage to begin after UC Berkeley COLA General Assembly vote

UC graduate student worker union to hold vote on official statewide strike

Graduate student worker union, UC file unfair labor practice charges against each other

UC graduate students rebuff university concession, reaffirm demands

GSIs, TAs to receive retroactive fee remission from UC Berkeley

Chancellor Christ announces Graduate Student Diversity Task Force

UC Berkeley research examines effects of minimum wage increases

Union groups rally at UCSF, meet with UCSD chancellor to discuss rights for academic researchers