UAW 4811 has filed Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) charges over UC management’s attempts to exclude thousands of workers from our bargaining unit. These workers include most first year GSRs, workers on a variety of fellowships, and other GSRs who have been placed in unrepresented job titles. If UC’s efforts are successful, all these workers stand to lose basic rights to timely pay, protection from discrimination and abuse, and even workers’ compensation. UC has been working to undermine our contract for months, but academic workers have fought back by organizing and filing grievances across the state. These ULPs are the next step in ensuring UC abides by our contract.
To make sure workers have the strongest case possible, all GSRs need to take stock of who is being misclassified and how. Fill out this form and another worker on your campus will be in touch about how to move the campaign forward. Please also forward this information to any GSRs who might be impacted by UC’s actions.
UC spends enormous amount of energy on “diversity” and “equity” yet despite all the PhDs and HR teams have managed to avoid the inevitable conclusion that they have modeled themselves on an inequitable structure.
