Bargaining updates

TL;DR: UC has proposed fewer TAs and massive cuts to TA pay and benefits. Come to the Work-In tomorrow starting at 10am outside Soda 380 to decisively reject this proposal…

Happy Pi Day! More than a week ago, ASEs passed a major supposal to the university's side of the bargaining table regarding a new staffing and compensation structure to address…

$1.5 million. That's the value of all the overwork that EECS/DS TAs provide to the university each academic year, according to our recent survey of ASEs. It's a staggering number…

We're entering week 4 of the effort to negotiate increased staffing within the EECS/DS departments, and major progress is being made. On Monday and Friday, ASEs passed back our first…

Yesterday and Friday, ASEs again met with university representatives in the effort to negotiate staffing within the EECS/DS Department. Below are a few key points that were discussed in the…

Yesterday was the third bargaining session in the effort to negotiate staffing within the EECS/DS Department. We were joined by Chris Stanich, the Associate Vice Chancellor for Financial Planning, and…

This week we had two productive bargaining sessions. In the first session, we heard from Jedi Tsang about understaffing in 61b, where we would need an additional 82 TA hours and 115 tutor hours just to account for current levels of overwork, even without shortening OH queues or allowing ASEs to spend more than just a few minutes per ticket. Next, we heard from Jalen Gooch about CS 10, where there’s so few staff that readers run OH, the head TAs are appointed at only 8 hours instead of 20, there are only 6 TAs (all 8hr) and 50 AIs, and the class wouldn’t have existed this semester even in this understaffed format without an anonymous donation.