UC Berkeley: Action on Wednesday
Noon, Oct. 27 – Sather Gate at UC Berkeley.
from those who use it:
The Academic Student Employees (ASEs) in UAW 2865 – that means all of the GSIs, readers, and tutors on all UC campuses across the state – have been denied a fair contract since negotiations with the administration began over the summer. The UC is pushing an effective pay cut – a “raise” that is below the projected inflation rate – and refusing to increase childcare subsidies (which are currently $450/semester, hardly enough for even a month of childcare).
Undergraduates who have experienced fee hikes know the feeling. With yet another fee hike on the table for the next Regents meeting (Nov. 16), this trend toward forcing its own students into poverty has no end in sight, and now graduate students are under attack. Fee hikes and denial of a fair contract are two sides of the same coin: austerity measures.
Just when you thought the UC administration was the only enemy on campus, we find out that the GSIs’ own union bargaining team is giving them the runaround. The final day of contract bargaining is this Wednesday,
