United Automobile Workers, or UAW, Local 2865 union members and UC administrators convened Tuesday for the first Public Employment Relations Board, or PERB, hearing addressing unfair labor practice charges filed against each other.
UAW Local 2865, the union representing 19,000 academic workers across all UC campuses, filed an unfair labor practice charge against the university for its allegedly illegal actions circumventing the union and directly bargaining with workers in response to the UC Santa Cruz wildcat strike, according to UAW Local 2865 President Kavitha Iyengar.