SRU-UAW

Since the strike ended, UAW 2865 and SRU-UAW members and leaders have disputed union election practices, strike strategy and the impact of their new labor contracts on their thousands of representees.

After six weeks of striking, academic employees represented by United Auto Workers, or UAW, 2865 and SRU-UAW voted to ratify the tentative agreements with the University of California on Friday — bringing an end to the largest academic workers strike in U.S. history. 

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.

In a historic first, the Berkeley Faculty Association, or BFA, hosted a joint rally with UC-AFT Local 1474 in solidarity with UAW Local 2865, UAW Local 5810 and SRU-UAW on Wednesday.

The UC UAW Disability Justice Committee has demanded the University of California create a safe and healthy workplace as they negotiate on disability articles for academic workers.

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.

Unionized academic workers have been out on strike across the UC system since Monday to protest unfair labor practices and continue to bargain with the university each day of the strike.

Nearly all of the 1,500 graduate students, postdocs and student researchers present at Memorial Glade raised their hands with a resounding “aye!” during the UAW members meeting Thursday, unanimously calling for a statewide strike authorization vote.