Student Researchers United and United Auto Workers Local 2865, unions representing graduate student researchers and academic student employees, respectively, merged to become known solely as UAW Local 2865, it announced Monday. The announcement, made via Twitter, said UAW Local 2865 will now be the singular union representing all 36,000 University of California graduate student employees.
Nick Geiser, a doctoral student in physics and member of SRU’s bargaining team, said the merger has been expected for a long time. SRU was originally formed in 2020, after the formation of UAW Local 2865, because graduate student researchers were not originally considered employees of the University until UAW Local 2865 lobbied for the change in 2017, Geiser added. Geiser said most SRU members planned to eventually join UAW Local 2865 because job titles often change or overlap over time while working as an academic student employee or graduate student researcher. The graduate students working in each department are often a mix of academic student employees and graduate student researchers as well, he said...
Full story at https://dailybruin.com/2023/02/28/student-researchers-united-merges-with-united-auto-workers-local-2865.
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