The university bargaining team has repeatedly claimed that the university simply is not able to provide enough resources to fund instruction in EECS/DS. Let’s take a look at their…
To the university bargaining team: We are student-workers from a wide swath of the largest courses in EECS and DSUS. We teach the discussion sections, tutor the students, write…
Sign the petition to save EECS/DS: eecsdsstaff.org/petition As you might have heard, TAs, tutors, and readers (or academic student employees, ASEs) in the EECS/DS departments are currently bargaining with…
When talking about issues in EECS/DS courses at UC Berkeley, one topic always comes up: the budget. But how does budgeting actually work, and why isn’t…
The number one goal of ASEs in the bargaining process is to increase staffing and instructional quality in the EECS and Data Science departments. Here’s what’s happening…
In the EECS/DS staffing bargaining process, one of the most contentious issues at the bargaining table has been the compensation and benefits that should be provided…
Update: the university has dropped its demands that TAs become hourly employees. For decades, TAs at the University of California have received a regular salary for…
ASEs within the EECS/DS departments conducted a survey of approximately 10% of undergraduate and graduate academic student employees in EECS/DS. Here’s what we found. Terminology Some…
