Monday, May 9, 2011

Activist Slate Wins UC Union Election « Student Activism

Activist Slate Wins UC Union Election « Student Activism

Activist Slate Wins UC Union Election

After more than a week of delays and disputes the votes from the just-ended UAW 2865 election have been completed, and AWDU, the insurgent slate allied with the recent University of California student uprising, have won a significant victory.

UAW 2865 represents the UC system’s student academic employees, this was both a student election and a union election. Both sides won some positions, and both sides are claiming a measure of vindication in the results, but incumbents USEJ were shut out in the most prominent officer races and took barely 40% of the seats on the local’s statewide council.

I’m still getting up to speed on this election’s long-term implications, but quite a few people in California who I’ve grown to like and trust over the last few years are very pleased by this news.

Here’s how AWDU is describing the road ahead:

Now it is time for us to bring this strength to our fight against the attacks on higher education. As a next