Laura Beebe, a scientist based at the University of California, San Diego, is celebrating news that she’s among more than 17,000 higher education workers on the west coast who now officially are represented in contract negotiations by the UAW.
It wasn’t easy.
A quiet campaign by union organizers at the University of California, which includes 10 campuses in the state, ended in May with more than 10,000 signed cards officially submitted to authorities that would create the Student Researchers United-UAW. Then the process stalled.