image shows UC-AFT members holding banners on a freeway over pass reading "No UCI Layoffs" and "Job Security". One raises a sign reading "Defend Labor". The graphic has the UC-AFT logo in one corner with the words "Take Action" and then at the bottom it says "Tell the Regents: Stop the Cuts"
Members of the Unit 17 bargaining team and their supporters gather outside a bargaining session at UC Irvine in March, 2024. Most are wearing dark blue t-shirts with the UC-AFT logo and raise their fists.
Members of the UCSB chapter and their students and supporters at a rally in 2021. Some hold pickets reading "End Unpaid Work Now!" and "UC-AFT Faculty Demand Job Security!". Some hold banners, one on the right reads "The UC Works Because We Do" with hundreds of member signatures. The one in the center reads "Faculty Equity- Student Success."
Members of UC-AFT, wearing masks and standing at a safe distance, holding a banner hanging over a pedestrian overpass at UC Irvine in 2020. Their banners read "No UCI Layoffs" and "Job Security!"
A group of teachers outside the Preuss School smiling with their fists raised.
Members of UC-AFT in blue shirts standing outside McHenry library.
a group of 16 people pose smiling in a conference room.
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What are your hopes for the new Unit 18 Teaching Faculty contract?

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Katie Arosteguy, UC Davis, Continuing Lecturer, Writing Center

I'd like stronger contract language related to job security, workload, and compensation that recognizes the professional and critical work we do as teachers for the UC.

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Amy Kennemore, Lecturer, Latin America Studies, UCSD

I teach nearly 1,000 students each year — students from diverse backgrounds and majors who are inspired by liberation movements across the Americas and eager to critically engage new ideas. I want a contract that honors what this work requires: academic freedom, freedom of speech, and smaller class sizes that make real dialogue and deep learning possible.