Student-Worker Strike Repercussions

Source: https://twitter.com/uaw2865/status/1619014501646598145.

The letter is attached as an image to the tweet above and is reproduced below. Legibility can be improved by clicking on the image. Yours truly could not find a text file of the letter on the web.

Unless the contract specifically constrains the university in setting standards for class sizes that require a TA, etc., the leverage of the unions is limited as a legal matter. Such decisions are likely to be made at the campus and department levels and would be viewed in labor law as management prerogatives. Similarly, the decisions with regard to research assistant hiring and hours is mainly determined by grant recipients. The contract contains a "management's rights" provision that appears to cover such matters. See pages 57-58 of https://uaw2865.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/ASE-Tentative-agreement-20221216.pdf. It would, however, be an unfair labor practice to discriminate on the basis of union membership or on the basis of participation in the strike in hiring, termination, assignment of hours, etc.