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UC pitches their proposed wage increases for academic workers as "highly competitive". But have you wondered what these wages would look like if increased by the same % over time as UC employers, including your boss? You can do this now using ucmywages.com 1/n
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to all faculty who sympathize with students for being overworked/underpaid: i invite you to talk to your colleagues to organize solutions. if at least 10 faculty each gave $100/month to a mutual aid fund, imagine the safety net we could create. at least 9k over an academic year
We believe a contract should be weighed by its merits, including whether wages will pull workers out of rent burden. Our new ucmywages.com rent burden tracker shows that by 10/2024, only 1 position (Teaching Fellow) at 1 campus (UC Merced) will escape rent burden.
There is only 1 day remaining to vote on this TA'd contract. We hope @sruuaw and @uaw2865 workers consider whether their contract will provide wages sufficient for housing and other living expenses, especially in the midst of the California housing crisis.
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At a UCLA department townhall that took place *immediately* before the BT's vote to TA, at least half of department reps expressed serious concern about the speed of the TA/ratification process. A thread 1/
As we continue with mediation and consider our proposed wages, we find it important to see how much the @sruuaw @uaw2865 vs the UC has moved on the bargaining table. Our ucmywages.com proposal tracker allows you to easily visualize the disparity in wage movement:
ALT A dot plot showing the proposals from UAW vs UC over time across ASE and GSR salary steps. Overall trend reveals substantial movement between UAW proposals toward UC's initial proposal, but not much movement between UC proposals to UAW's initial proposal. Dots represent most generalized wages, excluding campus-specific increases and using wages for October 2023.
Some think that the % raise offered to UC grad workers is comparable across positions. But a typical ~3% raise of a low income is still inadequate. ucmywages.com helps visualize how seemingly fair and comparable % raises exacerbate income inequality.
The disparity is glaring. Over the last 10 years, UCI’s chancellor received a $130k boost in annual income. That is 17.3x larger than GSRs and 5.4x larger than Professors.
We've been making a lot of updates to this tool this week. Keep your eyes peeled for new features soon, including an updated proposal tracker for the UAW/UC bargaining. #FairUCNow #UAWonStrike #UCMyWages @sruuaw @uaw2865