UAW Local 5810

Today, UAW academic workers are rallying at University of California, San Diego in support of two Postdoctoral Researchers who have suffered under a pattern of abuse that has gone unchecked—and are demanding accountability from

UC San Diego refuses to take action while one of their Professors subjects employees to continual belittlement and harassment, and forces them to work excessive hours.

UC Academic Workers recently won industry standard-setting parental leave policies and protections against workplace bullying, but the UC San Diego administration is choosing to let inequitable situations continue instead of implementing the new contractual rights.

There is a documented pattern of Postdocs in this lab facing abusive conduct and excessive work. We are demanding accountability from UCSD administrators, and concrete action to end this cycle of known abuse.

UAW members in Region 6! Join fellow members from across the region to discuss all we have accomplished this year, and to collectively make plans for organizing and building power in the coming years. For more info & to register, contact your Local Union.

Check out this great piece by UAW International Union President Ray Curry on Academic Workers' decades-long fight to improve conditions in our workplace through our collective power as unionized workers!

Curry: Thank UAW for proliferation of higher education unionization | Labor Voices United Auto Workers has been helping higher education workers organize for decades, and they now account for a significant portion of our membership.

In negotiations with the UC, Postdocs, Academic Researchers, Academic Student Employees and Student Researchers are all proposing that UC take action to mitigate the climate crisis. Here’s the rationale behind our demands.