13 years ago, condemned for its violent response to protest, UC adopted new, more humane policies. Faced with the largest anti-war movement in years, it changed them back. Now UAW 4811 members are striking over this serious ULP and others. 🧵
1/uaw4811.org/ucs-u-turn Last week, UC returned to the California Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) to ask for an injunction against our ULP strike. Yesterday, PERB once again ruled that our strike can continue, and issued a thorough complaint against the university’s serious ULPs. 2/

🧵On October 28th, 2023, our Local Unions passed a statement calling for a #CeasefireNOW and an end to the occupation of Palestine. In the past 41 days alone, Israeli bombs have claimed over 11,000 lives in Gaza. 1/6uaw2865.org/ceasefirenow/ For the last eighteen years, Gaza has been the site of an escalating humanitarian calamity. Walled in by the Israeli occupation, more than two million Palestinians in the most densely-populated place on earth struggle to make a life amid bombing, deprivation, and joblessness.

Did you see this? @UofCalifornia Executive Vice President Michael Brown wrote a letter to the editor of the LA Times in which he offers 'a full picture of the University of California system’s fair proposal to academic employees.' (1/10)

latimes.com/opinion/letter… What is this fair proposal he describes?

'salaried teaching assistants, who are part-time employees, would make between $24,874 and $30,893 to work 50% time, a 7% increase in the first year.'

WHAT?!! (2/10)

Watch this 🧵with videos from bargaining team members from all four bargaining teams answering some FAQs! Or find them all here: fairucnow.org/bteams/
#FairUCnow Who's on the bargaining teams?