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4 weeks into the biggest strike in US higher education history, the UAW is clearly winning the PR battle. A 🧵 on campaign communications, the changing media landscape, and the next phases of #UAWonStrike /1
latimes.com/california/sto…
latimes.com/california/sto…
Reports abt #UAWonStrike at UC's 10 campuses have been notably sympathetic. UC tried first to portray union demands as greedy, then to reassure public they had been negotiating in good faith all along--the union is being unreasonable and mean, we need a mediator! Didn't work /2
In previous years, media more often repeated UCs talking points--esp. listing graduate employee salaries on 100% FTE basis when most are limited to 50-66% FTE. That talking point didn't fly this time. Is unionization at news orgs like @latguild helping to educate reporters? /3
working on my chapter on the angela davis case, so thought it'd be worth mentioning this again:
davis was a grad student at UCSD when hired as a prof at UCLA in '69. she kept her san diego apartment & rented what she described as a "6-room" apartment in LA. each cost $75/mo 1/x
davis was a grad student at UCSD when hired as a prof at UCLA in '69. she kept her san diego apartment & rented what she described as a "6-room" apartment in LA. each cost $75/mo 1/x
her salary at UCLA was $10,260/year, which came to $863/mo before deductions, plus a supplemental 2/9 of her salary for a research grant. that's an extra $1,140 during each summer month. deducting state and fed income taxes and $8/mo for health care, comes to around $620/mo.
even if davis hadn't eventually subletted her SD apartment to her sister, the $150/mo she paid to rent two substantial apartments in two major cities still did not put her at rent burden. it also meant that she was able regularly to travel between those two cities to organize.
