by Justin | Dec 4, 2020 | Graduate Workers, UAW Local 2865
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...
by Justin | Dec 1, 2020 | Amazon, Graduate Workers, UAW Local 2865
The University of California at Los Angeles paid at least 15 graduate and undergraduate student employees with Amazon gift cards after it discovered an error in tax deductions created by its payroll system on November 20. “The University of...
by Justin | Oct 12, 2020 | UAW Local 2865, UAW Local 5810
More than 30,000 United Auto Workers, or UAW, union members at UC campuses have planned actions in opposition to a proposal by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, or DHS, amending the length of time international students can stay in the United States before...
by Justin | Oct 8, 2020 | Graduate Workers, UAW Local 2865
United Auto Workers (UAW) 2865, the union representing tutors, readers, graduate student instructors and teaching assistants at the University of California, filed a grievance to UCI in May concerning the school’s Summer Session teaching assistants receiving half-pay....
by Justin | Oct 6, 2020 | Graduate Workers, Organizing, UAW Local 2865
Rank and File Action (RAFA) is UAW 2865’s newest and most militant caucus. Emerging out of the UC-wide struggle for a Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA), RAFA is organizing a counter-power within our union to advance the political assertion of rank and file members,...
by Justin | Sep 30, 2020 | Graduate Workers, UAW Local 2865
Striking was the most effective method to gain bargaining leverage, according to Sara Smith, a former UCSC graduate student who was involved in UAW from 2004 to May 2014. “Our most powerful tool was our ability to stop business as usual,” Smith said. “The university...
