While the grad student workers that went on strike from the UC system for six weeks won concessions like increased pay, a substantial portion of the workers are still dissatisfied and the contracts are relatively short, so negotiations may resume in 2024.
. Members of UAW 2865, the union representing teaching assistants, tutors and instructors, overwhelmingly rejected the deal at three campuses. The rank-and-file of the slightly smaller union of student researchers, UAW-SRU, also clobbered the deal at two campuses.
Still, the dissent puts pressure on union leadership to take the frustrations of the rank-and-file seriously, especially since the contracts are set to expire in less than three years.Janna Haider spends $1,150 a month on rent and utilities for her Santa Barbara studio — about 49% of her income through her work as a history doctoral student at UC Santa Barbara, she said.
He said he’s in the early stages of proposing a bill to a state lawmaker to kill the fee. That’s expensive since the UC relies on higher out-of-state tuition and fees for its revenues.Though the new contract promises larger child care stipends to graduate workers who are parents, it falls well short of what the unions originally demanded.
It’s not clear who’s doing the grading for the remaining grades. Some campus spokespersons wouldn’t say — or didn’t know — whether graduate workers who were on strike are now back to grading assignments. However, a UC Berkeley spokesperson said some “graduate student instructors voluntarily came back in the last days of December to assist with grading.
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