Thread by @maryjirmanus

Press Release: #UC Disabled Student Workers Reject Tentative Agreement, form “Justice Coalition” demanding Cost of Living Adjustment, Access Needs, and COVID specific protections in @uaw2865 @sruuaw @UAW5810 contracts

#FairUCNow #NoCOLANoContract👇🏽

docs.google.com/document/d/e/2…

@AccessUc on urgency of Universal Online Access: "Online accessibility is crucial now at a time when UC has increased barriers to accessibility in general as well having dropped mask mandates, refused to renovate old building HVAC to MERV-13 or above and phased out PCR testing"

Student workers have proposed a revolutionary "Access Needs" article, which builds on and strengthens the language of the existing “Reasonable Accommodations” article in the previous UAW 2865 contract. docs.google.com/document/d/e/2…

A second proposed "Public Health and Safety" builds on recent court rulings which have deemed in-school masking bans illegal, calling for the immediate repeal of a UC ban on instructors asking students to mask. pbs.org/newshour/healt…

@AJMooreHealth adds "We are seeing over 2000 deaths per week from COVID. Studies show universal masking works and we cannot rely on optional one-way masking to keep us safe. We need to use more layers of protection."

@uaw2865 @sruuaw @UAW5810 "The Coalition objected to a future Tentative Agreement (TA) decided upon yesterday by UAW 2865 and other bargaining teams that reduced the wage floor of 54K to 43K and removed #COLA cost of living adjustments and childcare subsidies."