Friends and Colleagues,
Our demands are reasonable and achievable: 1) a common-sense evaluation and rehiring process; 2) salaries that reflect our experience, contributions, and the cost of living in California; and 3) stopping workload creep by including all our instructional and non-instructional work in our compensation.
UC management has ignored all three of these priorities for more than two years. They are making NO proposals to address the problems we’ve laid out in evaluation, rehiring, and workload. On salary, they’re offering NO 2021-2022 raises for the vast majority of lecturers when nearly all other UC workers, including tenure-track faculty, are getting 3% or more.
Strikes work. With this administration, nothing less than a super-majority strike authorization vote will get the contract we need and deserve. With your “yes” vote, we can win this fight to transform our jobs and our university.
This campaign is about dignity and respect: for ourselves, for our students, for our work, for our profession. If we don’t stand up now against the exploitation of contingent academic labor, who will? Join the hundreds of lecturers who have already signed our strike readiness pledge: vote “yes” on our strike authorization vote.
More information and questions about voting and more information are available here, or join your colleagues for one of several informational discussions in the coming days by registering here.
In solidarity,
Mia McIver, President UC-AFT