FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: UC-AFT Joins UC-UAW in Filing Unfair Labor Practice Charges Related to Use of Force in Campus Responses to Student Protests Media contacts: UC-AFT President Katie Rodger UC-AFT VP of Organizing Josh Brahinsky UC-AFT Communications Chair Caroline Luce UC-AFT (University of California-American Federation of Teachers), which represents 6,500 teaching faculty and librarians at […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: UC-AFT Joins UC-UAW in Filing Unfair Labor Practice Charges Related to Use of Force in Campus Responses to Student Protests UC-AFT (University Council-American Federation of Teachers), which represents 6,500 teaching faculty and librarians at the University of California campuses, has filed Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) charges against the University of California administration, […]
As Unit 17 Vice President Kendra Levine says in this article, our UC-AFT Librarians are fighting for recogniztion that they do more than just help students; they are scholars and researchers in their own right. “If we’re academics, then we should… be held to the same standards as all the other (principal investigators) on campus,” […]
Read More… from “University librarians negotiate contract as expiration approaches” Daily Cal (2024)
Despite winning increased job security in our 2021 contract campaign, lecturers at UC Merced are still fighting to prevent layoffs owed to their campus’ budget deficits. As lecturer Caleb Westby described, their plight is a reminder that “… no matter how much loyalty or work or effort you give to an institution, that institution doesn’t […]
When teachers at the UCLA Lab School went on strike in 2023, their students showed strong support. As 9-year-old Ayla told a reporter from the LA Times, “They make learning fun and it’s always exciting, because before I came, I didn’t like all the subjects. Now I love them,” she said. “They’re striking today because […]
Written at the height of our 2019-2021 contract fight, UCI Lecturer Diane Mendoza Nevárez described the plight of lecturers in intimate detail: “… what message does UC send when lecturers — who are much more likely than tenure-track faculty to be women, and more likely to be BIPOC — are seemingly regarded as disposable? When […]
The UC workforce has a churn problem as about a quarter of the system’s 6,000 lecturers don’t return annually. The lecturer union and UC have made some progress in their multi-year impasse over a new contract, but many issues remain unsolved as the threat of strikes loom. Read more at CalMatters […]
In this 2021 article, Table Team member Kat Lewin laid out the stakes of the Unit 18 contract campaign: “I think UCI in particular really prides itself on a reputation of a school that serves a lot of first-generation and low-income college students…The studies have shown again and again there is a direct correlation between […]
Reporter Mikhail Zinshteyn’s deep dive into the problem of teaching faculty churn for Cal Matters marked a huge turning point in our 2019-2021 contract campaign. His article featured data analysis and personal profiles that elevated the issues we’d been raising at the bargaining table. Read it at Cal Matters […]
In this 2018 article for Academe Magazine, Hank Reichman profiled UC-AFT librarians’ fight for Academic Freedom, arguing that “the erosion of academic freedom is a danger to our educational system.” By the end of the contract campaign, librarians had pushed the UC to adopt a new policy protecting not only our members academic freedom rights, […]
Read More… from “UC Librarians Fight for Academic Freedom, Pay Equity,” Academe Magazine (2018)
