Resources for faculty – pay us more ucsc

Faculty can assist with our strike in a variety of ways:

Faculty statewide have committed to respecting the rights of UAW 4811 members to organize and strike as they vote on whether to authorize an Unfair Labor Practices Strike. You can find the Statewide faculty non-retaliation pledge, and you can sign on to the pledge here.
CUCFA FAQs about a UAW Strike (Council of UC Faculty Associations)
CUCFA non-retaliation statement
AFT FAQs about Strike (Lecturers’ Union)
Template grads-to-faculty letter

Mission

We are TAs, GSIs, Tutors, Readers, Student Researchers, Fellows, Postdocs, and Academic Researchers at UCSC. We are represented by our union, UAW 4811 (Formerly UAW 2865 and UAW 5810). In 2019/2020, workers at UCSC withheld labor for a Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA), and in 2022, our statewide union struck for 6 weeks over a COLA, arguing for a 54k base wage for all academic workers with the goal of raising the living conditions of academic workers across the state. Now, we are on strike for Divestment, Disclosure, Transitional funding for researchers, & Amnesty for all protestors.