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organizer, deep-planetary scientist by way of Postdoc @UCBerkeley and PhD @Yale, CA born & raised, tweeting #UnionYes #SciPol #FirstGen etc. she/her
Nov 29, 2022 11 tweets 3 min read
🚨 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) 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)