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Another core demand of our strike is the removal of non-resident supplemental tuition (NRST) for grad workers in the UC. The current TA only codifies existing practice, i.e. it makes no material improvement. What makes this demand so hard to win? What are the stakes here? 🧵
This was a major demand for a large portion of the grad workers. The TA delivers very little on that demand. If intl workers vote in high numbers, they have the potential to be decisive. Will they vote at all? If so, will they base their vote on the NRST provision?
This fall term, a full 33% of doctoral students at UC were “non-resident international,” numbering nearly 10,000 total. This is to say nothing of international master’s students, professional students, or undergrads covered by the contract.
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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
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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
🧵 Stop doing things the way we’ve been doing it. Stop using the same tools and repeating the same tactics. Put simply, stop fighting with ineffective weapons.
Thread time Thursday: 🧵/
Thread time Thursday: 🧵/
Okay, we’re here’s an equation.
1. Something really bad happens.
2. We grab whoever’s closest, run to the first biggest event, we take to the street.
3. We commit to an action item that causes pressure for change and advocate for our cause.
4. We get small change & go home.
1. Something really bad happens.
2. We grab whoever’s closest, run to the first biggest event, we take to the street.
3. We commit to an action item that causes pressure for change and advocate for our cause.
4. We get small change & go home.
This is a method called “Building Critical Mass” when political issues spill over into the secondary-impacted population zones, building “popular support.” We often get tied that this method, this “urgency” “mobilize” and “burnout” organizing is the winning tool.
🚨 UC POSTDOCS OF @UAW5810 SETTING NEW INDUSTRY STANDARDS ONCE AGAIN! 🚨 (a 🧵)
Postdocs and Academic Researchers reached a Tentative Agreement on a contract last night. I want to highlight some of the transformative Postdoc gains in this TA:
(1/11)
Postdocs and Academic Researchers reached a Tentative Agreement on a contract last night. I want to highlight some of the transformative Postdoc gains in this TA:
(1/11)
Compensation: Most Postdocs will receive a 20% salary increase by Oct 2023, with 7.2% yearly increases for at-scale postdocs thereafter, making the median Postdoc salary at UC among the highest if not the highest at universities the country. (2/11)
Family benefits: 8 weeks of fully paid parental leave for birthing and non-birthing parents, eligible immediately upon appointment (no FMLA req)— a doubling of the status quo; together w/the first ever $2500/yr Postdoc childcare benefit that increases yearly (3/11)
