Landmark wage increase for UC student workers still keep some below poverty line. 38% of student employees and 32% of student researchers voted no on contract due to inadequate wages
The powerful strike upended one of the largest university systems in the world but was betrayed by the United Auto Workers union, which sought to divide and smother a rank-and-file rebellion.
The local and national UAW leadership has resorted to open censorship and bullying to push this contract through. University of California researchers cannot trust the integrity of the contract vote to the same leadership that systematically suppressed our votes in the UAW presidential election.
The University of California Rank-and-File Strike Committee (UCRFSC) is calling on 36,000 teaching assistants, student researchers and other workers to reject the five-year deals being pushed by the United Auto Workers bureaucracy
The regressive character of Friday’s tentative agreement further exposes the pro-corporate role of the UAW bureaucracy and explodes its presentation of Steinberg as a “neutral” arbiter.