As UC Stonewalls Contract Negotiations, Researchers Take their Fight for Fairness Online
The union representing 6,500 scientific researchers at the University of California today launched a new online information campaign highlighting the role of postdoctoral researchers (“postdocs”) in California’s economy, saying that after UC has stonewalled contract negotiations for 18 months, it is time to take their case to the public. A barrage of online ads in major scientific, academic, and news websites shows postdocs are critical to California’s research and innovation engine.
Noting that Ph.D.-educated scholars researching cancer cures earn as little as $37,400 annually, while UC administrators who are holding up a fair contract earn in excess of $165,000 each year, the ads bring into sharp focus how out of touch the administration is with the skilled scientists who do the bulk of the university's world-renowned research and who help UC bring in $5 billion in federal, state, and private research contracts annually.