University of California Student Researchers United (SRU) from all 10 campuses and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have voted yes, 10,622 out of 10,890, to authorize a recognition strike to form a labor union local with the United Auto Workers (UAW).
“UC has ignored our democratic and legal choice to unionize for more than six months now,” said Raymundo Miranda, a graduate student researcher in UC San Diego’s Neuroscience Department. “We are disappointed that it has come to this, but California’s PERB verified our union, and a supermajority of workers support it. UC has left us no choice but to authorize a strike.”
Recognition strike: UC student researchers favor walk out
