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After a lengthy bargaining process, postdoctoral scholars in the UC system reflected on their efforts and the improvements made in their official contract.

As academic workers continue to strike for increased wages throughout the UC system, discussions have emerged over whether the demonstrations will impact workers’ payrolls.

Tensions simmered following the University of California’s “final” offer on wages to UAW 2865 and SRU’s bargaining teams last Friday. 

Academic workers conducting a sit-in protest at the UC Office of the President, or UCOP, in the city of Sacramento were arrested Monday amid union strikes throughout the UC system.

The largest higher education strike in history of 48,000 academic workers across the UC system has entered its fourth week.

UAW 5810, the local union representing UC academic researchers and postdoctoral scholars, reached a tentative agreement with the University of California on a new five-year contract that will last until Sept. 30, 2027, if ratified by a simple majority of union-represented workers.

Striking academic workers from UC Berkeley, UCSF and UC Davis marched on the UC Office of the President, or UCOP, in Oakland Monday. 

Bargaining teams from UAW 5810, the unit representing postdoctoral scholars and academic researchers at the University of California, reached a tentative contract agreement with the university Monday night.

Following a week of voting, four bargaining units of UAW announced a historic authorization to strike. This Daily Californian tool follows all four contract negotiations as tentative agreements are reached between the UC system and the academic worker unions.

Many have expressed support for UC academic workers in their ongoing strike, including local organizations, workers and government officials.