After months of negotiating deadlock, the University of California system formally recognized graduate student researchers as higher education employees and thus their right to unionize. “Almost every student researcher I’ve talked to knows someone who has been underpaid, overworked, and/or abused in a toxic work environment,” said Kevin Smith, an SRU-UAW organizer and UCSB student researcher. “Now we are another step closer to gaining some real protections.”
UC Student Researchers Union Gains Recognition
