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 the exams, and do just about everything it takes to run a course for students. Today, our elected representatives are providing you with a proposal that is the bare minimum required to guarantee an increase in instructional quality in the departments. It is the last, best, and final offer.
We are taking the unprecedented move to support taking wages and fee remissions that are lower than what are guaranteed to us in the contract the university already agreed to. By October 2024, the wages of an undergraduate student worker teaching a discussion section would be more than 20% lower than a graduate student on the same campus doing the same work. Additionally, 8-hour UCS2s would receive remissions 60% lower than the full fee remissions that workers in the state have fought for for decades, with 10- and 12-hour UCS2s receiving fee remission on a linear scale to achieve cost parity, as this was one of your stated objections to our previous proposals.
In exchange for this movement, there must be binding staffing increases of 15% over enrollment within the departments to address long office hours wait times, overcrowded classrooms, and overworked staff members. We recognize the university’s hesitancy to make such a guarantee, which is why the proposal language grants the university the right to “meet and confer” with the union in the event of a significant and consequential reduction in the University’s ability to fund instruction.
All these measures represent $3.3 million in annual cost savings to the department compared to equivalent staffing levels under our current union contract. Never before in the history of our union have workers agreed to give up so much of their hard-won rights. But our students are suffering, and if this is what it takes to bring them relief, we are willing to do it.
We want to reiterate that this is the final offer. Any more movement on staffing would jeopardize the education of our students. Any more movement on wages and benefits would leave student workers in EECS/DS in conditions worse than at the beginning of last year’s strike.
If the university does not accept this deal, we will retain all of the rights guaranteed to us under our union contract — the same as every other worker in the University of California.
In the event that the university attempts to implement an instructional model of extreme austerity, rest assured that student workers will file grievances over every instance of overwork, misclassification, and wage theft in the departments. The last time we did this at a significant scale — when the university attempted to deny 8-hour TAs fee remission — central campus administration had to shell out over $9 million of extra funding for EECS/DS ASEs, all because the University refused to settle for a similarly generous compromise at the time. If our rights are violated and our students suffer because of it, which would certainly happen in the world of the “no deal” scenarios outlined to us, we can and will force campus administrators to fund instruction by any and all means legally available to us.
Best,
Gabe Classon, CS 61A uGSI
Dahlia Saba, EECS 16A uGSI
Jalen Gooch, CS 10 uGSI
Alex Schedel, CS 61B GSI
Laksith Prabu, CS 61B uGSI
Ben Pierias, CS 10 uGSI
Annie Miller, CS 10 uGSI
Mehul Gandhi, CS10 Reader
Angel Aldaco, CS 61B Tutor
Jackie Pei, CS 61A uGSI
Charlotte Le, CS 61A uGSI
Jordan Schwartz, CS 61A uGSI
Chenkun Sheng, CS 61B Tutor
Jedidiah Tsang, CS 61B uGSI
Aymeric Barrier, DATA C88C Tutor
Junyang Wang, CS 61C uGSI
Rosalie Fang, CS 61C uGSI
James Weichert, Data 8 uGSI
David Yang, CS 61B Tutor
Noah Adhikari, CS 61B uGSI
Stella Kaval, CS 61B uGSI
Kyle Zhang, CS 61B uGSI
Adit Shah, CS 61B uGSI
Sophie Nazarian, CS 61B Tutor
Kenneth Wang, CS 61B uGSI
Circle Chen, CS 61B uGSI
Deepak Ragu, CS 61B Tutor
Edward Park, CS 61B uGSI
Ali Khani, CS 61B uGSI
Dhruti Pandya, CS 61B uGSI
Wilson Wu, CS 170 uGSI
Dominic Conricode, CS 61B uGSI
Hailey Park, CS61B uGSI
Cyrus Bugwadia, CS 61A uGSI
Emily Su, CS 61B uGSI
Ruslana Yurtyn, CS 61A uGSI
Aryan Jain, EECS 127 uGSI
Brandon Tran, CS 61A uGSI
Angelina Songco, CS 61B uGSI
Hetal Shah, DATA C88C uGSI
Viraj Ramakrishnan, CS 170 uGSI
Mingxiao Wei, CS 61A/DATA C88C uGSI
Rebecca Dang, DATA C88C Tutor
Katrina Liu, DATA C8 Tutor
Antonio Kam, CS 61A uGSI
Michelle Chen, CS 61A uGSI
Ashley Kao, CS 61B Tutor
Christina Yao, CS 61A Tutor
Angela Bi, DATA C88C Tutor
Ines Yang, DATA 8 Tutor
Ethan Yoo, DATA C88C uGSI
Karim El-Refai, DATA C88C Tutor
Anjali Gurajapu, DATA C88C uGSI
John Teng, CS 88 Tutor
Jay Chou, CS61B Tutor
Dun-Ming Huang, DATA C100 Reader
Cyrus Hung, CS 61A Tutor
Will Giorza, CS 61A Tutor
Claire Thibodeaux, CS 61b Tutor
Zeeshan Patel, CS 170 Reader
Manan Saaraswat, CS 61C Tutor
Ryan Cottone, CS 161 uGSI
Madison Bohannan, CS 161 Head uGSI
Imran Khaliq-Baporia, CS 161 uGSI
Rachel Kim, CS 61A uGSI
Crystal Wang, CS 61B uGSI
Amit Sant, CS 88 uGSI
Edward Byun CS 61C uGSI
Mahnoor Haq CS 61A uGSI
Aditya Balasubramanian, CS 61A uGSI
Zoë Bell, CS 170 GSI
Padma Venkatraman, DATA 8 uGSI
Jonathan Ferrari, Data 8 uGSI
Steven Christopher, CS 61A Tutor,
Akshit Dewan, CS 161 uGSI
Nikki Suzani, Data 140 uGSI
Victoria Phelps, CS 10 Tutor
Vibha Tantry, CS 186 uGSI
Chris Liu, CS 170 uGSI
Devang Jhabakh Jai, CS 186 uGSI
Kanav Mittal, EECS 16A uGSI
Leo Huang, EECS 16A Tutor,
Nithin Chalapathi, EECS 186 GSI
Ben Cuan, CS186 uGSI
Jennifer Buja, CS 186 uGSI,
Aniruddh Khanwale, EECS 16A Head uGSI
Naomi Sagan, EE 120 Head GSI
Alicia Matsumoto, EECS 127 Head uGSI
Druv Pai, EECS 127 Head GSI
Arman Kazmi, Data C100 Reader
Rahul Shah, Data C100 GSI
Jonathan Guo, CS 70 uGSI
Ayati Sharma, CS 61B Tutor
Timothy Tu, CS 61A uGSI
Raymond Tan, CS 61A uGSI
Zackary Oon, Data 8 Tutor
Alex Goldberg, Data 8 uGSI
Steffi Tan, CS61A Tutor
Matthew Shen, Data 100 uGSI
Anastasia Simonova, EECS 16A Head Lab uGSI
Shreyash Iyengar, EECS 16A Head Lab uGSI
David Ban, CS 70 Reader
Alec Li, CS 70 uGSI
Aryan Agrawal, CS 186 uGSI
Catherine Hwu, CS 186 uGSI
Chengyi Zhang, EECS 151 uGSI
James DeLoye, CS 170 uGSI
Ronit Nagarapu, EECS 16A Tutor
Rohan Mathur, CS 61C uGSI
Benjamin Yin, CS 61C Tutor
Nathalys Pham, CS 61B Tutor
Sam Xu, CS 61C Tutor
Anthony Salinas Suarez, CS 61C uGSI
Rohit Mittal, CS61C uGSI
Ekansh Agrawal, CS 61C Tutor
Yile Hu, CS61C Tutor
James Ni, EECS 16B Tutor
Eugenia Chien, CS61C Tutor
Vedang Joshi, EECS 16B Tutor
Sylvia Jin, EECS 16B Tutor
Fehmi Arda Akman, CS61C uGSI
Victoria Stukalova, CS61B Tutor
Sherry Fan, CS61B uGSI
Pranav Sukumar, CS 186 uGSI
Vivian Wu, EECS 16A uGSI
Allen Gu, CS 61B uGSI
Catherine Van Keuren, CS 61C uGSI
Aditya Madaraju, EECS 16A Tutor
Alexander Lew, CS 61B uGSI
Zaid Maayah, Data 100 Reader
Isabella Borkovic, EECS 16B uGSI
Veeryan Bhatia, EECS 16B Tutor/Reader
Josh Richland, Data 140 Reader
Nima Rahmanian, EECS 16B Head uGSI
Arvind Rajaraman, CS 189 Head uGSI
Thomas Culhane, CS 61A Tutor
Ethan Lo, CS61B Tutor
Vanessa Teo, CS 61B Tutor
Enqian Zheng, CS61C Tutor
Carrie Hu, Data 8 uGSI
Natalie Chan, Data 100 uGSI
William Lee, CS 61B Tutor
Yiyan Hao, Data 140 uGSI
Sohom Paul, EECS 126 uGSI
Lance Mathias, CS170 uGSI / CS182 Tutor
Atticus Ginsborg, Data 8 uGSI
Omar Yu, CS 61B uGSI
Liam Tan, CS 182 Tutor/EECS 126 Reader
Matthew Lee, CS 170 Reader
Avinash Rao, CS 170 Reader
Ayah Ahmad, EECS 16A uGSI
Joy Liu, CS 188 uGSI
Marie Chorpita, CS 61A uGSI
Ashwin Dara, CS 61A Tutor
Tyler Lam, CS 61A Tutor
Christopher Keokot, CS 61A Tutor
Dhruv Vaish, EECS 151 uGSI
Jeffrey Shen, CS 184 uGSI
Sahityasree Subramanian, CS 61B uGSI
Evgeny Pobachienko, CS 188 Head uGSI
Yufan Liu, CS 170 reader
Kanu Grover, Data 100 Head uGSI
Ethan Chien, Data 8 uGSI
Sonya Kiskachi, Data 8 uGSI
Conan Smallwood, Data 8 Tutor
Grace Yi, CS 61A uGSI
JiHo Bang, Data 8 Tutor
Max Fu, CS 280 Reader
Alan Zu, CS 61A Tutor
Shrey Aeron, EECS 16B Head Lab uGSI
Mingyang Wang, EECS 16B Head Lab uGSI
Joshua Lorincz, CS 170 Reader
Samuel Bobick, Data 8 uGSI
Lydia Sidhom, Data 8 Tutor
Tyler Zhu, CS 280 Reader
Vedansh Malhotra, CS 10 Head uGSI
Ashley Chu, CS 184 uGSI
Daniel Teal, EE 143 Head GSI
Thomas Lee, CS 61B Tutor
Billy Bao, CS 61C uGSI
Jonathan Pei, CS 170 uGSI
Alex Fu, EECS 126 uGSI
Yuanhan Li, CS 61C Tutor
William Furtado, Data 8 Head uGSI
Surya Mamidyala, CS161 Reader
Erik Kizior, CS 61B Tutor
Royce Ren, CS 61B uGSI
Sameer Keswani, Data 8 uGSI
Jeffrey Liang, CS 186 uGSI
Aayush Gupta, CS 189 Reader
Gokce Gozek, EECS 16A Tutor
Ishani Gupta, Data 8 Tutor
Anvitha Kachinthaya, EECS 16A uGSI
Kaed Esposo, Data 8 Tutor
Kapil Malladi, EECS 16A Tutor
Xavier Plourde, CS 170 Reader
Rodrigo Leiva, Data 8 uGSI
Mihai Tudor, EECS 16B ASE
Christina Fan, CS 61A Tutor
Ashley Chiu, CS 61A Tutor
Sean Yang, Data C88C Tutor
Mihir Mirchandani, CS 61B Tutor
Andrew Fan, EECS 16B uGSI
Junha Kim, EECS 16B Tutor
Alexander Ng, CS 61B Tutor
Laryn Qi, CS 61A Head uGSI
Nikhil Kandkur, CS 61C uGSI
Jasmine Lin, CS61B uGSI
Pragnay Nevatia, Data 100 uGSI
Huy Tran, CS 170 Reader
Chawin Sitawarin, CS 189, GSI
Elizabeth Sun, Data 8 Tutor
Mihran Miroyan, Data 100 uGSI
Rohan Chauhan, CS 189 Reader
Sarah Song, Data 8 uGSI
Jessica Golden, Data 8 uGSI
Margot Lavitt, Data 8 tutor
Vivian Kuang, Data 8 uGSI
Sahil Gupta, CS 162 Reader
Eric Che, CS 61B uGSI
Yuerou Tang, Data 100 uGSI
Zachary Wang, CS 161 Reader
Kevin Gao, CS 161 Reader
Meshan Khosla, CS61B uGSI
Viansa Schmulbach, CS 162 uGSI
Anirban Sarkar, CS170 Reader
Ana Cismaru, CS 161 Head uGSI
Nikhil Jha, CS 161 uGSI
Emily Duan, CS 61A Tutor
Albert Wang, CS 61A Tutor
Jennifer Prince, CS 61B uGSI
Kevin Wang, CS 70 uGSI
Amogh Tantradi, EE 122 Reader
Olivia Huang, CS 61B Tutor
Shreyas Swaminathan, CS 70 uGSI
Thomas Gerken, Data 198 uGSI
Gaurav Bhatnagar, CS 70 uGSI
Anton Than, CS 189 uGSI
Hari Vallabhaneni, CS 161 uGSI
Bryan Ngo, EE 123 Reader
Jessica Qian, Data 8 uGSI
Anthony Maltsev, CS 70 Reader
Hailey Jang, CS 162 Reader
Kelsey Ley, Data 8 uGSI
Kirthi Kumar, CS 188 Reader
Sean Wei, Data 8 uGSI
Samantha Centeno, Data 8 Tutor
Noah Tran, Data 8 uGSI
Carl Ji, CS 61B Tutor
Eran Kohen Behar, CS 61C uGSI
Joshua You, EECS 127 Tutor
Jacob Lebovitz, Data 8 Tutor
Jane Zhang, CS 70 uGSI
Austin George, CS 61B uGSI
Jonathan Lu, CS 189 uGSI
Colin Cai, CS170 Reader
Ian Dong, CS 70 Reader
Ojasvi Saxena, Data 8 Tutor
Lucy Lu, CS 61B uGSI
Samuel Berkun, CS 61B uGSI
Surbhi Jain, CS 61B Tutor
Julian Tuazon, CS 61B Tutor
Shreyas Kallingal, CS 61B uGSI
Andrew Zhang, CS 61B Tutor
Rohit Agarwal, CS 189 uGSI
Kyle Chiu, CS61C uGSI
Ian LI, CS61B Tutor
Troy Tsubota, CS 61A Tutor
Alejandro Sanchez, EECS 16A reader
Jacob Yim, Data 100 uGSI
Anjali Thakrar, CS184 Head uGSI
Lawrence Shieh, CS 61B Tutor
Bryce Wong, CS 61A uGSI
Divija Hasteer, CS 152 uGSI
Dev Bali, CS 161 uGSI
Andrew Lin, CS 191 Reader
Nicholas Nguyen, CS 61B Tutor
Elana Ho, CS 61B uGSI
Rohan Tibrewal, CS 162 Reader
Tanya Mehta, CS 61B Tutor
Addison Kalanther, CS 189 Reader
Eunice Choi, Data 8 uGSI
Walker Browning, EECS 16B uGSI
Xifeng Li, CS 61B Tutor
Joe Alarcon, EECS 16B Tutor
Giselle Mendoza Rocha, CS 194 GSI
Manke Luo, CS 61B Tutor
Aleem Lakdawala, CS 61B Tutor
Mrunali Manjrekar, CS 189 uGSI
Reina Wang, EECS 126 Head uGSI
Sashrika Pandey, CS 188 uGSI
Karim Kaylani, DATA C88C uGSI
Dhruv Ahuja, CS61B Tutor
Shirley Chen, CS 61B uGSI
Su Min Park, Data 8 uGSI
Kristen Vitolo, Data 8 uGSI
Shm Garanganao Almeda, CS160 Head GSI
Bridget Agyare, EECS 16B Head uGSI
Joel Jaison, CS61C Tutor
Ciara Acosta, Data 8 uGSI
Ronald Wang, CS61B Tutor
Rebecca Hu, Data 8 uGSI
Ashley Ye, CS 61B Tutor
Elisa Kim, CS 61B uGSI
Ethan Ordentlich, CS 195 Head GSI
Daniel Endraws, EECS 151 Reader
Vaibhav Mohata, CS 10 uGSI
Aditya Ramabadran, EECS 127 uGSI
Yuki Ito, EECS 127 uGSI
Allen Cao, CS 61B Tutor
Pradyun Kumar, CS61B Tutor
Joshua Davis, CS61C Tutor
Ayushi Batwara, CS 70 uGSI
Anish Dhanashekar, EECS 16A uGSI
Dylan Reimer, EECS 16B uGSI
Tianchen Liu, CS 170 Head uGSI
Claire Ding, DATA 140 Reader
Charlie Cheng-Jie Ji, Data 100 Reader
Erik Nelson, CS 61B Tutor
Anthony Zhang, Data 100 Reader
Eric Kusnanto, CS 61C uGSI
Yousef Helal, EE120 Head uGSI
Nadia Latifi, CS 61B Tutor
David Huang, Data 100 Reader
Cham Yao, CS 188 uGSI
Billy Pierce, EE120 uGSI
Bill Hu CS61C Tutor
Erik Ma, EECS 16A Tutor
SreeVidya Ganga, CS61B Head uGSI
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