Neal Sweeney

UAW 5810, the local union representing UC academic researchers and postdoctoral scholars, reached a tentative agreement with the University of California on a new five-year contract that will last until Sept. 30, 2027, if ratified by a simple majority of union-represented workers.

Since the campus Recreational Sports Facility first closed in March 2020, it has slowly reopened to certain members of campus. However, it has been slower in giving full access to community members, campus affiliates and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory postdoctoral researchers.

UC President Michael Drake extended the use of Emergency Paid Sick Leave to all UC employees, effective Oct. 1, 2021 to June 30, 2022.

More than a year after the campus deployment of the payroll system UCPath, postdoctoral students and academic researchers continue to experience payroll errors, according to several members of the Union of Postdocs and Academic Researchers, or UAW Local 5810.

If you sign a contract, you have to follow the contract. Seems simple, right? Yet the University of California seems to have a problem understanding the need to adhere to the contract it signed with UC postdoctoral scholars.

At its conception, the federal sequester – a mandate that slashed billions of dollars to crucial federal programs – was never supposed to happen.

A union representing University of California postdoctoral researchers is calling on the UC to reimburse many union members who paid out-of-pocket for health care benefits due to a previous misunderstanding.

Nearly 400 people have signed a petition calling for the University of California to provide all postdoctorates and their dependents equal access to university provided health benefits.