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Locals UAW 2865 & UAW 5810 are now UAW 4811, the union of 48,000 academic workers at UC
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Last night, students and workers protesting peacefully at UCLA for justice in Palestine were physically attacked by a group of 100+ counter protesters. UC’s failure to protect students and workers is an abdication of its responsibility. UAW 4811 members are mobilizing in response
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UPDATE: UC had the option to deescalate and negotiate with the protestors, but it chose instead to tear down the Palestine Solidarity Encampment using flash bang grenades and rubber bullets. Arrests have been made including of UAW 4811 members.
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Breaking - Workers sitting in at the UC Office of the President have been told they are under arrest.
#UAWonStrike
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BREAKING - 36,558 total votes were cast in UC Academic Workers’ Strike Authorization Votes, with 98% voting Yes to authorize a multi-unit strike if necessary. These are far and away the largest and most decisive strike authorization votes ever taken by Academic Workers in the US.
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The UAW 4811 Executive Board is calling for a strike authorization vote in response to last night’s attacks at UCLA.
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UAW 4811 members have voted by a super majority to authorize a strike.
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What a beautiful showing of solidarity from
@lsjumb
during halftime at the Big Game!
Students across California know that fair working conditions make better learning conditions. We will not be divided!
#UAWonStrike
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At 5am this morning, striking Academic Workers formed a picket line at a construction site at UC Berkeley and successfully shut it down by talking to the workers from OE, IBEW, and LiUNA. They are honoring our picket line and won't be building today.
#Solidarity
#UAWonStrike
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BREAKING - We have tentative agreements that include raises of up to 80% for the lowest paid workers. The strike still continues until the agreements are ratified.
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We are holding a Strike Authorization vote May 13-15th. 🧵 (1/9)
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Today, everyone knows who's got the power.
Now it's time for
@UofCalifornia
to settle fair contracts with all 48,000 workers who make this University run.
@UAWonStrike
#FairUCnow
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A
#Teamster
driver just told a picket line at UC Berkeley that he has over 100 packages that he won't be delivering to campus. "We’re in the same fight, and we will deal with calls from angry customers and bosses if that means we all win more!"
#FairUCnow
#UAWonStrike
#UCstrike
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Breaking - UC Berkeley Academic Workers have occupied California Hall and we’re not leaving until Chancellor Christ commits to fair contracts for all
#UAWonStrike
#FairUCnow
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Academic workers marching on a picket line at the Berkeley Lab gate singing 'Solidarity Forever' in unison. This is the first ever strike at LBNL!
#FairUCNow
#UAWonStrike
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Gated, private islands can’t keep us out! Our amphibious strike brigade set sail for the the moated isle of
@UCIrvine
mega donor Donald Bren this morning.
Donald, call
@UCPrezDrake
and tell him you wanted your money to help the workers, not the Chancellors!!
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BREAKING: UC Davis, UC San Diego, UC Santa Cruz, and UC Irvine have extended remote instruction through the end of January.
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1500 academic workers marching to the Office of the President in Oakland! We are still going strong ✊💪
#FairUCNow
#UAWonStrike
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Tens of thousands of Academic Workers held the line on Day 2 of our multi-unit statewide strike. We made UC return to the bargaining table, despite having previously declined to schedule any sessions for today. With our growing power, we WILL win fair contracts!
@UAWonStrike
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Our occupation of the UC Office of the President has moved from the lobby to a conference room. No business as usual until we win fair contracts!
#UAWonStrike
#FairUCnow
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Thousands of workers shut down Wilshire Boulevard today. When will
@UofCalifornia
bargain in good faith and settle a fair contract?
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The results are in: 79% of participating members voted YES to authorize a strike if circumstances justify. On Friday, the Eboard will evaluate and announce whether to call the first campus or campuses to Stand Up
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he will not leave the bucket until we have a deal
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Academic Student Employees and Student Researchers ratified our new contracts!
The vote breakdown was 11,386 to 7,097 for Academic Student Employees and 10,057 to 4,640 for Student Researchers.
#FairUCnow
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In an unconscionable move by the UC, University of California Police arrested 3 workers on felony charges and confiscated their possessions for writing messages in chalk and washable paint calling on UC to stop underpaying workers.🧵
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UC President Michael Drake’s dinner party did not turn out as he’d expected. We came to remind him that striking workers are still struggling to afford rent and food.
Strike Week 4 - we need more!
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In Sacramento a giant march is joining the rally outside the UC Office of the President office building, where workers inside are doing a sit-in, shutting down business as usual until we win fair contracts.
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We are not waiting around for UC leaders to value our labor. We are bringing our fight to their offices and to their mansions. And we'll keep coming back until we win fair contracts.
#UAWonStrike
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BREAKING - striking academic workers are occupying the office of UC Regent and CEO of the David Geffen Company Richard Sherman. We need a fair contract now!
#FairUCNow
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UAW 4811 stands in solidarity with students and
@SW_Columbia
academic workers at Columbia where admin, along with politicians, have chosen to bring in heavily armed police instead of coming to an agreement. 48000 workers at UC are with you in the fight for justice in Palestine.
BREAKING: NYPD’s Strategic Resource Group has entered Carman Gates and is heading towards Hind’s Hall at Columbia University. Mass arrests are imminent.
#cu4palestine
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Amazing news: tonight, UAW 2865 won back the remission of healthcare premiums for all 80+ UCSC ASEs who were terminated and stripped of healthcare. Every unionist who rallied and signed the ULP strike pledge: you did this! We fight on for full justice and a
#COLA4ALL
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.
@UofCalifornia
told the LA Times their compensation proposal would make grad workers 'the highest paid among comparable public and private institutions.'
We ran the numbers - That's a bold-faced lie. UC's proposals are uniquely low.
@UofCalifornia
can do better.
NEW: Fears rise about long-term effects of
@UofCalifornia
strike on system's teaching and research mission. Faculty have been sounding alarm for two decades, urge more funding for long-neglected needs of grad students.
@uaw2865
@UAW5810
@sruuaw
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Workers launched a maritime expedition to reach the private island of
@UCIrvine
megadonor Donald Bren!
Donald,
@UofCalifornia
took your millions and bought mansions for the higher-ups while Teaching Assistants slept in their cars!
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BREAKING - During the first-ever strike by UC Academic Researchers & Postdoctoral Scholars, workers have won a groundbreaking tentative agreement that includes wages that reflect the cost of living & the highest academic salary scale for Postdocs anywhere.
ASEs and SRs are next!
TENTATIVE AGREEMENTS REACHED FOR POSTDOCS & ACADEMIC RESEARCHERS AT UC!
Last night, the UAW 5810 bargaining teams reached tentative agreements on new contracts.
They will be put to a membership vote. Details to come. We are still on strike until a contract is ratified.
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“UC forced their workers to escalate our actions to call attention to their unfair labor practices and unlivable wages. We will not stop until we receive a fair contract,” -Elias Bunting Student Researcher at UC Davis, just arrested while demanding a contract with a livable wage
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Highlights from the picket line at UC Irvine. What a beautiful turnout!
#FairUCnow
#UAWonStrike
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HEY EVERYONE - What were your favorite moments on the picket line this week? Reply here & share a picture if you've got one. 👏🎤💃😂🪧
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Beautiful highlights of our strike at UCLA, filmed by
@RafiknWahbi
📸
We are not letting up. See you on the picket lines tomorrow!
#UAWonStrike
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Happening now! UCSD picket line is surrounding the faculty club. We are told Chancellor Khosla is inside.
#FairUCNow
#UAWonStrike
#UCstrike
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When UC Labor Relations Director told
@KQED
that the cost of housing is outside UC's control, she was either mistaken or being deliberately misleading.
As the state's largest landlord, UC can do better. Read this analysis from a
@UCBerkeley
economist.
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BREAKING: 17 Academic Workers are staging a sit-in at the UCOP office building in Sacramento, demanding fair contracts now!
#UAWonStrike
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“We’re the ones who perform the majority of the teaching, and we’re the ones who perform the majority of the research,” said Rafael Jaime, a doctoral candidate at the University of California, Los Angeles, who is president of U.A.W. Local 2865
#FairUCNow
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The Executive Board of UAW Local 4811 has called on Academic Workers at UCLA and UC Davis to STAND UP and walk off the job next Tuesday, May 28th.
#StandUpUC
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SAN DIEGO - Rally against attempted intimidation by
@UCSanDiego
faculty tomorrow at 2:30PM. Their petty threats don't scare us; we are stronger than they are.
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RIP Bill Walton, lifelong union member, pictured here taking direct action and facing arrest in protest of the Vietnam War. Protest movements at UC have always been on the right side of history.
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In case anyone still thought this was about "graffiti"—UC is clearly misusing their private police to target unions. Last night they searched a member’s home for: “Evidence of membership or affiliation with any university organization […] to include any reference to "UAW"
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Beautiful solidarity from
@Teamsters
UPS drivers!
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Want your own UAW Eat The Rich t-shirt? Donate $50 or more to the UAW Region 6 Hardship Fund with the message “eat the rich”, and Local 2865 will send one to the first 100 donors.
#StandUpUAW
👉
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48,000 Academic Workers are on strike. Support our fight for a truly public higher education system by contributing whatever you can:
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We are sending a wake up call to
@UofCalifornia
leadership! Get out of bed and face the sunlight: world class teaching and research are not compatible with poverty wages!
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An update from UAW 2865 bargaining team member Jess Banks, at a rally yesterday at UC Berkeley. Our organizing has already led to some progress, but there is still a ways to go toward fair contracts!
The latest: UC told us they will not be bargaining today.
#UAWonStrike
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Our members have been beaten, concussed, pepper sprayed, both by counter-protestors and by police forces. As a union, it is our responsibility to stand beside them and demand that UC stop committing these gross Unfair Labor Practices. (5/9)
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It's been wonderful seeing faculty come out to support academic workers, even though the administration has been sending intimidating messages to discourage faculty participation.
"UC works because we do!" Let's all fight for a
#FairUCnow
#UAWonStrike
#UCstrike
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GOOD MORNING UC DONOR AND BENEFACTOR HENRY SAMUELI! We are giving you a wake up call:
@UofCalifornia
took all that money you donated and gave the chancellors raises while the workers starve!
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TODAY at 3PM - Rally at Aldrich Hall
@UCIrvine
. The pressure is ON until
@UofCalifornia
stops its unlawful behavior and bargains in good faith!.
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Workers have been charged with Trespassing while sitting in at the UC Office of the President demanding
@UCPrezDrake
take leadership to settle fair contracts now!
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Jane McAlevey, organizer, teacher, and UAW 4811 member, has passed away. She taught us to never stop fighting for a powerful and member-led labor movement -- in her honor, we’ll keep raising expectations and raising hell for a better UC and a better future.
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Learn why this former IDF soldier is voting yes on strike authorization tomorrow:
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Workers at yesterday’s occupation of the
@UofCalifornia
office in Oakland entered a meeting of the Academic Personnel and Programs Department and saw this poster on a vision board, the contents of which are beyond parody.
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In case Michael Drake and his dinner guests forgot, we came to remind them:
Berkeley classes - union made!
Berkeley research - union made!
Berkeley rents don’t match our pay!
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UCSD has shut down campus today and appears to be preparing to clear the UCSD Palestine solidarity encampment, following the same repressive tactics we saw at UCLA last week to shut down free speech on campus. UAW 4811 stands in solidarity with protestors
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'I recognize that meeting the demands being made at the bargaining table will come at a cost. But honoring our academic workers by providing industry-leading fair compensation, job security, and essential resources to survive California’s high cost of living is long overdue'
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UC Riverside Academic Workers with a song that should never get unstuck from your head 🎶
#UAWonStrike
#FairUCNow
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“I spent most of it living out of my car because the rent situation in Los Angeles was untenable both in the graduate student housing and in the private market apartments in LA,” - Bernard Remollino.
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.
@Shut_downAmazon
and
@rafaeldjaime
are bringing
#ShutItDown
vibes to our picket outside the Regents’ Meeting. Solidarity with
@amazonlabor
!
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Over 75% of the 48,000 UAW-represented workers at UC are sending a strong message to the University: In order to avert a multi-unit strike, they must cease unlawful conduct and negotiate in good faith to create research and teaching environments where all can thrive.
#FairUCNow
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Solidarity from
@Teamsters
makes us stronger.
UPDATE: Nearly all UPS drivers in southern and northern CA have been informed by the Teamsters that they can refuse to deliver packages to the U of California during the strike.
Teamsters confirmed. This will likely to have some impact on the U.C. system
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At the end of a long week of striking and walking the picket line dawn until dusk, this is how we are feeling.
#UAWonStrike
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"What does it say about a university system touted as one of the Golden State’s best attributes if its intellectual workforce can’t afford to live in the state?"
The
@latimes
is asking the right questions!
Editorial: A strike by UC academic workers would tarnish the prestigious university system (via
@latimesopinion
)
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“The stakes are incredibly high, and the UC is not demonstrating that they understand that. We’re here to make our demands impossible to ignore.” - Jess Banks, ASE / bargaining team member at UC Berkeley.
#UAWonStrike
#ShutItDown
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UPDATE - Chancellor Christ still hasn't shown her face to talk with striking workers, but we'll be waiting for her in the morning!
#UAWonStrike
#ShutItDown
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Academic workers at UCSB and UCSD will walk off the job starting Monday, June 3rd, and academic workers at UC Irvine will join them on Wednesday, June 5th.
#StandUpUC
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Our employer spent 29 million dollars to use police force against workers and students peacefully protesting the war in Gaza this spring. Academic Student Employees start bargaining in just under 6 months–how much is UC willing to invest in its workers?
JUST IN:
@UofCalifornia
has shelled out an estimated $29 million to handle protests over the Israel-Hamas war from March to June -- 90% of it for policing and other security.
@UCLA
tops list with $10 million spent.
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The entire California labor movement backs our strike. Thank you
@CaliforniaLabor
!
With official strike sanction granted, UAW now has support of 1200 affiliates & 2 million members of
@CaliforniaLabor
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Building/Construction Trades supporting; Teamsters Joint Councils 7 & 42 issue sanction so members can honor picket lines.
#FairUCNow
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📣 CHARGES DROPPED 📣 After months of resistance, UC San Diego has agreed to drop all student misconduct charges and to pursue no further legal action against the three workers arrested in June for allegedly chalking protest slogans on campus.
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UCSD workers carried last week's energy through to this Monday, with no signs of letting up. Out of the labs and into the streets (+ the waves!)
#UAWonStrike
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TAs at the "
#1
public university in the United States" shouldn’t have to live in cars and on couches. That’s why we’re fighting for $54K.
Join the fight ☞
#FairUCnow
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Update: Today our bargaining team voted to enter voluntary mediation with UC in order to help break through the University’s bad-faith bargaining. No terms and conditions have been set yet.
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GOOD MORNING UC SAN DIEGO DONOR & TRUSTEE GARY JACOBS! We are at your house at 6:30AM to let you know that
@UofCalifornia
took all those millions you donated and gave administrators raises while workers sleep in their cars.
#FairUCnow
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