"I consider it important, indeed urgently necessary, for intellectual workers to get together, both to protect their own economic status and, also, generally speaking, to secure their influence in the political field."
-- Albert Einstein, on why he joined the faculty Union at Princeton as a charter member. |
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Above: Photos of some of the Postdocs who are active in PRO/UAW on their campus. If you would like to sign up, please call (415) 538-0844 and one of these representatives or another Postdoc organizer will get in touch with you.
PRO/UAW Bargaining Team:
- UC Berkeley - Matthew "Oki" O'Connor , Ph.D., Nutritional Science and Toxicology
- UC Davis - Laura Bartley, Ph.D., Plant Pathology Department
- UC Irvine - Tobias Kaufmann, Ph.D., Center for Cosmology
- UCLA - Xiaoqing Cao, Ph.D., Department of Biological Chemistry, David Geffen School of Medicine
- UC Riverside - Pesach Lubinsky, Ph.D., Botany and Plant Sciences Department
- UC San Diego - Hady Felfly, Ph.D., Department of Pediatrics
- UC San Francisco - Dil Kapadia, Ph.D., Department of Medicine
- UC Santa Barbara - Ravinath Kausik, Ph.D., Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
- UC Santa Cruz - Serena Bertone, Ph.D., Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics
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PRO/UAW is the Union for 5,700 Postdoctoral Researchers at the University of California. Through the Union we can exercise our legal rights to bargain with UC. Postdoc representatives we choose will survey us to determine priorities and will then negotiate a contract with UC. We can negotiate for improvements in wages, hours, benefits, and terms and conditions of employment. Postdocs will then have an opportunity to democratically approve the agreement that UC and our bargaining team reach, before it becomes a binding contract.
Right now, any changes the University makes to our working conditions, good or bad, are not democratically approved by Postdocs, are not negotiated by Postdocs, and are not contractually guaranteed. This means the University can give or take away whatever it wants to from the terms and conditions of our employment at any time. Only through a Union can Postdocs negotiate on an equal footing with the University and put whatever they negotiate into a legally binding contract.
**Science Funding Updates**
- New report talks about challenges facing new investigators and research universities as a whole given the current funding context.
- Read this letter from UAW Local 4121 supporting Federal legislation that budgeted $30 Billion in NIH funding.
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