In this article from the Daily Cal, Bargaining Team member Tim Vollmer reflects on the new Unit 17 collective bargaining...
“UC and librarians reach contract agreement for increased wages and support” Daily Cal (2024)
Media coverage
“Faculty Unions Across the Country Push Back against Congressional Hearing on Campus Protests As Attacks on Campus Free Speech,” Davis Vanguard (2024)
UC-AFT President Katie Roger and VP of Unit 18 John Branstetter travelled to Washington, D.C. as part of a delegation...
Watch: UC-AFT leaders join press conference in Washington D.C.
At a press conference outside the Capital Building in Washington D.C., Unit 18 Vice President John Branstetter spoke out against...
“After Learning Her TA Would Be Paid More Than She Was, This Lecturer Quit,” Chronicle of Higher Education (2024)
In this May, 2024 article, The Chronicle of Higher Ed profiles Amanda Reiterman, a UC-AFT lecturer at UCSC, about her...
“University librarians negotiate contract as expiration approaches” Daily Cal (2024)
As Unit 17 Vice President Kendra Levine says in this article, our UC-AFT Librarians are fighting for recogniztion that they...
“We’re eating into our savings.’ A budget crunch at UC Merced hits campus lecturers” KVPR (2024)
Despite winning increased job security in our 2021 contract campaign, lecturers at UC Merced are still fighting to prevent layoffs...
“Teachers at elite UCLA Lab School strike, saying model campus culture is changing,” Los Angeles Times (2023)
When teachers at the UCLA Lab School went on strike in 2023, their students showed strong support. As 9-year-old Ayla...
“Op-Ed: UC churns through a quarter of its lecturers a year. Why I was forced to move on,” Los Angeles Times (2021)
Written at the height of our 2019-2021 contract fight, UCI Lecturer Diane Mendoza Nevárez described the plight of lecturers in...
“Pressure mounts on UC as lecturer workforce strikes and class cancellations loom,” CalMatters (2021)
The UC workforce has a churn problem as about a quarter of the system’s 6,000 lecturers don’t return annually. The...
“UCI Lecturers Face Job Insecurity, UC-AFT Pickets To Raise Awareness” New University (2021)
In this 2021 article, Table Team member Kat Lewin laid out the stakes of the Unit 18 contract campaign: “I...
