Bargaining Update # 4: Management begins to make progress on immigration
Yesterday in Los Angeles, UAW 4811 Academic Student Employees (ASEs) met with UC management for another round of contract negotiations. At the session, management delivered a counter-proposal to the immigration proposal that ASEs submitted last month—one that makes significant progress towards just working conditions for all academic workers. This would not have happened without months of organizing, thousands of petition signatures, and meetings with college deans on every campus. But there’s much more work to be done in order to win conditions that will protect all workers from the Trump administration’s attacks. Click below to join thousands of your coworkers in calling on UC admin to guarantee truly fair working conditions for everyone. Signing will not duplicate your membership.
UC admin’s counter-proposal on immigration
Last month at the first bargaining session, ASEs proposed some of the strongest immigration protections in any union contract. Management’s counter-proposal takes steps towards those protections—it would:
Require UC admin to notify workers when ICE or other immigration enforcement is on campus
Prohibit UC admin from sharing immigration-related information about employees without a judicial warrant
Commit UC to support workers and undocumented community members by refusing collaboration with ICE
However, management has not yet committed to the legal support and expanded visa leave that thousands of workers have demanded. Academic workers will need to show UC admin that we will take whatever action is necessary to secure real protections from Trump’s attacks on immigrants and international scholars. Yesterday’s negotiations are a strong indication that the pressure is working—let’s keep it up until we secure the rights that we deserve. Click the button below to join thousands of your fellow workers and UC community members in demanding that UC admin do everything in its power to protect immigrants’ rights!
Stay informed, attend the Bargaining Debrief, and join the Contract Action Team
Tomorrow (Thursday) at 1PM, there will be a Bargaining Debrief meeting over Zoom. Register for the meeting here to hear updates and join discussion on the contract campaign so far. To view all proposals submitted by the ASE Bargaining Committee and UC management, check out the bargaining tracker here. Find more bargaining info at the ASE bargaining webpage. In order to ensure that ASEs’ bargaining priorities win out, all ASEs need to join the fight and maximize pressure on the UC administration. Click here to join the Contract Action Team (CAT), spread the word to your coworkers about issues like immigration rights, and build the power necessary to win a fair contract.