UAW 2865

UC Regents convened at UCSF Mission Bay Tuesday and Wednesday to discuss its investment portfolio, budget and benefits and UCSF’s acquisition of two hospitals. 

After months of bargaining and two weeks since entering mediation, UAW 2865 and UC Berkeley agreed on a labor model for undergraduate EECS and data science course staffers Monday.

To grease the wheels on months-long contract negotiations, UC Berkeley and UAW 2865 have picked a mediator: Sacramento mayor Darrell Steinberg.

The California Public Employment Relations Board received an unfair labor practice charge Friday from UAW 2865, which alleges that the university has violated the Higher Education Employer-Employee Relations Act on at least 13 accounts.

​​Weeks of bargaining on wages, fee remissions and hiring levels for academic student employees, or ASEs, in EECS and data science courses have pushed ASEs’ labor union to put forth its “last,” “best” and “final” contract offer to UC Berkeley.

Hardly able to agree even on what can be done, how can those who live and work across 10 different campuses agree on what should be done?

After weeks of bargaining, UC Berkeley and UAW 2865 remain split on wages, fee remission and hiring levels for EECS and data science course staff. 

About 60 academic workers, students, faculty, staff and Union Auto Workers, or UAW, 2865 leaders convened at Li Ka Shing Center on Wednesday to discuss the impacts and potential redress of cases of staff overwork in EECS and data science courses in a town hall meeting. 

Since the strike ended, UAW 2865 and SRU-UAW members and leaders have disputed union election practices, strike strategy and the impact of their new labor contracts on their thousands of representees.

Despite the new contract agreements reached following the historic six-week UC academic workers strike, many have expressed disappointment relating to the “significant concessions” that were made to reach an agreement with the UC.