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Union nexus9/19/2023 ![]() ![]() His raise was 28% and it put him over the threshold to earning $500,000 a year, although earning is certainly a strong word,” Haider said. “Henry Yang got the largest raise by percentage. Haider criticized the hypocrisy of every UC Chancellor receiving significant pay raises earlier this year while TAs across the UC system struggled to afford housing. ![]() If we were to go on strike, it would be very specifically over the set of unfair labor practices that we are charging the university with, that we alleged the university has committed throughout this bargaining cycle.” “Strikes are expensive, they’re exhausting. “Certainly, nobody wants to go on strike,” she continued. “The goal of the strike would be to provide the maximum amount of disruption to the university,” she said, adding that the union would prefer to solve its disputes at the bargaining table. If the union calls a strike, TAs would immediately cease hosting sections and graduate student instructors would stop teaching their courses, according to Haider. We’ve reached this point of just flat-out unsustainability.” “90% of grad students across the University of California are rent burdened at 30% or more. “The centerpiece of this bargaining campaign this campaign cycle has been ending rent burden,” she said. ![]() The union began renegotiating their contract with the university this year on March 2 with the central element of the campaign being ending rent burden. Haider said the strike votes are the product of around 22 unfair labor practices (ULP) that were allegedly committed by the UC, alongside a failure to bargain in good faith. candidate and TA Janna Haider is one of two representatives from UCSB on the union’s bargaining team. UAW 2865’s recording secretary, fourth-year UC Santa Barbara history Ph.D. If passed, the votes would give respective unions the power to call a strike should they choose, but would not guarantee they will. The three UC unions under the United Auto Workers (UAW) - Student Researchers United (SRU), UAW 5810 representing both postdoctoral and academic student researchers in separate bargaining units and UAW 2865 representing teaching assistants (TA), graduate student instructors, tutors and readers - each organized strike votes across their four bargaining units from Oct. ![]()
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