UC pays me $2382 per month and charges me $1221 per month in rent. What the hell is "fair" about deliberate and calculated rent burden imposed by a multibillion $ institution? (1/9)
https://twitter.com/uaw2865/status/1591575442993352705
Let's be clear - we don't work 50% time for UC. We work 100% time, often more. All our research, publications, conference presentations, grants, and fellowships directly benefit the university, yet are currently completely uncompensated. (2/9)
I have no guaranteed summer funding so 1/4 of the year I'm left to fend for myself, even as I am expected to continue churning out research and publications with absolutely no financial support. (3/9)
UC provides no healthcare to dependents so my partner is left to find his own coverage, all of which is unaffordable on the UC wages. (4/9)
Yet after many rounds of negotiations, UC still refuses to provide dependent healthcare, raised rent on our campus housing, and only offers us a real wage CUT. And they have the nerve to call this "fair"? (5/9)
Meanwhile, tuition is up, enrollment is up, CA funding is up, major grants are up, chancellors' salaries are up. UC can easily afford to pay us living wages, they've just made it abundantly clear that they don't value our labor. (6/9)
They think homeless and starving grad students forced to rely on SNAP to get by is "fair." They think giving President Drake a $6.5mil mansion while TAs are living out of their cars is "fair." (7/9)
They think perpetuating unequal care work burdens by offering different parental leave for those who physically give birth vs those who don't is "fair" (meanwhile, I'm lecturing students on why it's NOT, irony of ironies). (8/9)
UC clearly doesn't know what fair is. Show solidarity to UC academic workers' strike to help us show UC exactly how much they need and should value our labor! #FairUCNow #ucstrike #UAWstrike (9/9)
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