Student-Worker Strike Repercussions - Part 23 (classification)

From the Daily Cal come word of a contract administration issue that has cropped up at Berkeley in the wake of the student-worker strike and settlement:

After a contract deal between the UC system and UC graduate student instructors’, or GSIs’, union UAW 2865 scheduled raises for course staffers across the state, some UC Berkeley GSIs allege campus reclassified them as lower-paid employees and served them a pay cut. For years, UC Berkeley classified GSIs as associate instructors, or AIs. After the 2022 UC academic worker strike, UAW 2865’s new labor contract with the UC system scheduled a series of salary increases for course staffers — including AIs and teaching assistants, or TAs...

In an email, union stewards for the English department Sylvie Thode and Andrew Haas said all AIs in the department were reclassified as TAs... When asked, campus spokesperson Janet Gilmore did not provide any details on the mapping from the old UC Berkeley scale to the new systemwide scale... Gilmore said campus is aware of such concerns regarding salary and job titles and has scheduled a meeting with UAW 2865 to “resolve related grievances.”

Full story at https://www.dailycal.org/2023/10/15/campus-gsis-allege-wage-cut-in-reclassification-to-lower-paid-job-title.