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UC-AFT, UCOP continue talks on job stability, compensation
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The University Council-American Federation of Teachers presented its compensation proposal and answered questions from UC negotiators about its job stability proposal at a bargaining session Jan. 21.
Last Updated January 26, 2021
The University Council-American Federation of Teachers, or UC-AFT, presented its compensation proposal and answered questions from UC negotiators about its job stability proposal at a bargaining session Jan. 21.
According to David Walter, a teaching faculty member in the UC Berkeley English department and comparative literature department, the UC Office of the President, or UCOP, and UC-AFT have been bargaining on three main topics: job stability, compensation and workload for almost two years. At the most recent bargaining session, UC-AFT explained its compensation proposal in addition to discussing how to raise the minimum salary and schedule future raises that match with infl