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It is impossible from the outside to tell where the negotiations are headed. But what I want to try to do here is offer some suggestions for how we could think about the gap, how we got here, and what we might do in the future to alter the conditions that have created what is undoubtedly a crisis at the University, and a depressing foreshadowing of the end of UC as a serious research university. If the latter does happen the responsibility will ultimately lie with UCOP and the Regents with some support fr
The first point is that it seems clear that there is a fundamental gap in the way that each side is defining these negotiations. UC is approaching this as if it were a conventional labor negotiation with a class of workers whose position is fundamentally stable. The UAW and its supporters on the other hand, start from the position that they have been placed in an untenable economic position. Given the fact that TA wages have barely kept up with national inflation over the years combined with the extreme
This image of autocratic disregard was only deepened by Provost Brown's appalling letter to the faculty last week . Although much of it was standard UCOP pablum, he inspired widespread faculty hostility with his closing flourish threatening faculty members who refused to pick up the work of striking workers with discipline beyond the docking of pay. For the last three years, faculty and lecturers have performed an enormous amount of additional labor to keep the university afloat during the pandemic: tran