From the Bruin: The contract negotiations between the UCLA lecturers union and the University of California are deadlocked, as the UC braces for budget cuts amid financial deficits. University Council-American Federation of Teachers Local 1990, a union that represents non-senate faculty at UCLA, has been in contract negotiations with the UC since April 2019. UC-AFT Local 1990’s contract with the UC expired January. Since UC-AFT Local 1990 and the UC have yet to reach a consensus, the union and the UC will likely enter a period of impasse, where the negotiation is referred to the California Public Employees Relations Board for mediation, said Caroline Luce, a member of the union’s organizing committee. Luce added that periods of impasse can take a long time and the union may have to strike to break the impasse...
UC is committed to negotiating a contract with UC-AFT Local 1990 as soon as possible, but negotiations have been slow, said UC spokesperson Stett Holbrook in an emailed statement...
Full story at https://dailybruin.com/2020/10/02/contract-negotiations-between-uc-aft-local-1990-and-uc-likely-to-reach-impasse
Comment: Yours truly used to teach courses in this area and two points are worth noting. Public sector labor disputes often take a long time to resolve. The fact that there is a built-in impasse procedure in the state law covering disputes can act add to delay in resolution. In addition, public statements by both sides are a form of indirect negotiation and communication to the opposite side, even during impasses. There could be public comments on this dispute at the upcoming off-cycle Regents meeting we posted about yesterday.
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