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Lecturers in blue union t-shirts carrying green and white picket signs reading "On strike for Unfair Labor practice - AFSCME 3299"

Welcome, UCI Anteaters! The UCI chapter of UC-AFT represents over 550 lecturers and librarians. We are a member-driven chapter, working to support one another and better understand our rights at work. Our 10-member Executive Board meets monthly, and you are welcome to attend. We’d also love to see you at our next membership meeting.

Your Chapter Governance

Current Officers:

Unit 18 Co-Chair – Lora Mjolsness

Unit 17 Co-Chair – Mitchell Brown

Vice President: Laura Klein

Unit 18 Steward: Kat Lewin

Grievance Collective Chair and Steward: Loren Eason

Community and Labor Coalition Liaison: Keith Danner

Professional Development Funding Coordinator: Vacant

Membership and Outreach Coordinator: Ben Garceau

Secretary/Recorder: Robert Wood

Retiree Member-At-Large: Andrew Tonkovich

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In the Fall we regularly hold a series of workshops for our members.

  • The Early Career Workshop focuses on important deadlines, assessments, and reviews that occur in your first 18 quarters of employment.
  • The 18-quarter and Beyond Workshop highlights the review process for the Excellence, Merit, and Continuing Reviews.
  • The Professional Development Workshop focuses on helping members secure funding for professional activities, including conference travel, course releases and more.
  • Find our UCI Unit 18 Checklists and Forms

Want to get more involved with your union?

  • The UCI chapter is always looking for CATs. The Contract Action Team (CAT) are individuals who wish to develop meaningful and lasting relationships inside their own departments and schools at UCI to strengthen our union.
  • View our most recent email with upcoming events and important dates.
  • Read our Irvine Chapter Bylaws.

Grievance Advice

  • Please contact the UCI Steward and our Field Representative for help.
Lecturers in blue union t-shirts carrying green and white picket signs reading "On strike for Unfair Labor practice - AFSCME 3299"

Supporting AFSCME, 2019

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!"

UC Irvine, 2020.

A group of lecturers in union t-shirts raising their fists in 2019. Each wears a different color t-shirt creating a rainbow (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, dark blue, and purple).

UC Irvine, 2019.

Members of the Unit 19 Bargaining team posing during a session at UC Irvine in October, 2019.

Unit 18 Bargaining Team, UC Irvine, 2019.

Two women, both wearing masks and blue shirts, walking down a flight of steps past a banner (fixed to the handrail) that reads "Faculty Equity Means Student Success". A crowd, most of them masked, gathers in the shade at the top of the steps.

UC Irvine, 2021.

Two women in sunglasses take a selfie. Behind them, people are walking carrying picket signs reading "UAW ON STRIKE - UNFAIR LABOR PRACTICE"

Supporting UAW, UCI, 2022

Four people, some in medical masks, some raising their fists, hold a homemade banner with a cartoon anteater wearing a UCI sweater. Out of the anteater's nose shoots an explosion-type text bubble that reads "Victory"

Ratification rally, UCI, 2021

a group of 16 people pose smiling in a conference room.

Unit 18 Bargaining, UCI, 2019

folks gathered around two picnic tables on a balcony listening to a speaker (not pictured)

Membership Meeting, UCI 2024

UC-AFT members in blue t-shirts standing at a safe distance during a job security action at UCI in 2020. Their banner reads "Job Security!". Some hold signs reading "Job Security" "No Layoffs" and "Defend Labor".

Job Security Action, UCI, 2020.

two women at a table having out flyers. Two other women crouch in front of the table, their backs to the camera

Supporting U17 Bargaining, UCI 2024

two people pose making peace signs with a setting sun on their faces

Membership Meeting, UCI 2023