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Academic Workers for a Democratic Union { UCLA chapter }. Public Education and Beyond. 8220;UC Davis Police Pepper-Spray Seated Students In Occupy Dispute”. From the Huffington Post. 8220;Open Letter to Chancellor Linda P. B. Katehi”. From UC Davis Bicycle Barricade. 8220;Pepper Spray Brutality at UC Davis”. From the Atlantic Monthly. 8220;The Roots of the UC Davis Pepper-Spraying”. 8220;Police Violence: The New Normal in America”. Of UCLA actions, from UCLA Fights Back! From the LA Times Blog. Public Hi...
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UC’s 1% | awduucla
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Academic Workers for a Democratic Union { UCLA chapter }. Public Education and Beyond. 8220;They Pledged Your Tuition”. 8220;UC and the 99%”. New York Times Interview. Where Yudof discusses his salary and perks. The Men and Women Who Turned Higher Ed. into High Finance. Appointed Regents, only one. 1) has previous experience as an educator or an administrator of an educational institution. One is a current student, and the remaining 17. Richard C. Blum. Is former CEO of Paramount Pictures. She curren...
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Resources | awduucla
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Academic Workers for a Democratic Union { UCLA chapter }. Public Education and Beyond. UAW’s History and Problems. Barry Eidlin (UC Berkeley), Why Our Union Is So Messed Up. Robert Wood (UC Irvine), On the Last Joint Council Meeting. Jeanne Scheper (UC Irvine), Visualize Academic Labor in the 1990s: Inventing an Activist Archive in Santa Barbara. Richard Sullivan (Illinois State U.), Pyrrhic Victory at UC Santa Barbara: The Struggle for Labor’s New Identity. July 31, 2010). January 25, 2011). Fill in you...
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Our Union | awduucla
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Academic Workers for a Democratic Union { UCLA chapter }. Public Education and Beyond. Our principles for a member run, democratic and progressive union. Rejecting Management’s Vision of Shared Pain. Our union has to reject management’s ideology of sharing the pain. We can only lift up ourselves and other workers by insisting on the rights, benefits, and living wages that we need to serve our students and live healthy rewarding lives. A more democratic union is a stronger union. Therefore, elected repres...
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Mission | awduucla
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Academic Workers for a Democratic Union { UCLA chapter }. Public Education and Beyond. UAW 2865 represents 12,000 academic student employees and has a $2M operating budget, yet its presence on campus is marginal at best. Unlike many student groups with limited life spans, the union has an institutional permanence that puts it in a unique position to transcend isolated struggles and build a general program for a more equitable UC. We are the Academic Workers for a Democratic Union (AWDU). Stand with us an...
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Public Higher Education for the 1%? Non-resident Recruitment Practices in the UC | awduucla
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Academic Workers for a Democratic Union { UCLA chapter }. Public Education and Beyond. Public Higher Education for the 1%? Non-resident Recruitment Practices in the UC. UCSC Dean of Social Sciences Sheldon Kamieniecki forwarded the admissions office request to social science department chairs, with the following note: I have volunteered to make 20 calls to social science students. Perhaps you and/or your faculty will want to do telephone calls as well. 8220;Out-of-state admissions increase sharply at UC,...
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Academic Workers for a Democratic Union { UCLA chapter }. Public Education and Beyond. Tuesday, November 15, 2011. When: 2:30pm and 4:00pm. Where: Powell Library Steps. UC-AFT President and Writing Programs Lecturer Bob Samuels will lead two teach-outs on budget cuts. Tuesday, November 15, 2011. The agenda is determined at the beginning of the meeting, but there will be a discussion of workshops and teach-outs. Wednesday, November 16, 2011. Where: CSU Long Beach. Wednesday, October 12, 2011. The meeting ...
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Our Work | awduucla
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Academic Workers for a Democratic Union { UCLA chapter }. Public Education and Beyond. Proposals for how to improve the quality of education for undergraduates by empowering ASEs with manageable workloads, adequate numbers of ASE positions, a discrimination-free university, liveable wages, and fair benefits. ASEs are academic workers not apprentices. Guaranteed Appointments with Fee Remission and Benefits for all Graduate Students. We need livable wages and economic security to continue providing the hig...
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Academic Workers for a Democratic Union { UCLA chapter }. Public Education and Beyond. 1 WHAT IS AWDU-UCLA ANYWAY? 2 WAIT… HOW DOES OUR UNION EVEN WORK? Here’s how the governing bodies look. A Executive Board (10 members). B Joint Council (66 Reps 10 E-Board Members = 76 Total). UCBerkeley – 13 Head Stewards, 15 positions total. UCDavis – 4 Head Stewards, 6 positions total (Campus Chair is vacant as of 2/20/2011). UCIrvine – 6 Head Stewards, 8 positions total. In addition to the Joint Council, all UAW 28...
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Academic Workers for a Democratic Union { UCLA chapter }. Public Education and Beyond. It’s been a busy summer for the UCLA AWDU chapter. We’ve been hard at work on preparing for campus orientations, gearing up for our contract campaign, and supporting the fight for quality, affordable public education across systems and schools and in California! Public Higher Education for the 1%? Non-resident Recruitment Practices in the UC. By all accounts, the UC’s stepped-up recruitment efforts are already showing ...
