UAW Local 5810

We must show the university that their obstruction is unacceptable. A mass-participatory vote conveys our ability to organize and to escalate if necessary until all the raises and benefits in our contract are secured.

UC postdoctoral scholars and academic researchers represented by the United Auto Workers, or UAW, 5810 bargaining teams voted to ratify contracts with the university, following temporary agreements made Nov. 28. Contract ratification passed with votes in favor totaling 89.4% by postdocs and 79.5% by academic researchers. 

Following a week of voting, four bargaining units of UAW announced a historic authorization to strike. This Daily Californian tool follows all four contract negotiations as tentative agreements are reached between the UC system and the academic worker unions.

Nearly all of the 1,500 graduate students, postdocs and student researchers present at Memorial Glade raised their hands with a resounding “aye!” during the UAW members meeting Thursday, unanimously calling for a statewide strike authorization vote.

Graduate students, postdoctoral researchers and academic researchers have won protections against bullying and abusive workplace conduct in a tentative agreement with the UC system.

Members of the UAW Student Researchers United and UAW Local 5810 for postdoctoral students hosted a joint rally against union busting on campus.

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

Faced with a projected $340 million budget deficit, UC Berkeley is primarily turning to its employment base for cost-saving measures.

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.

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.