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.
UCI Comparative Literature Ph.D. candidate Ashley Call was one of many teaching assistants (TAs) that earned a little over half of their usual salary when teaching a Summer Session class identical to ones they previously taught during the academic year.