From the Daily Cal: On Friday, Academic Student Employees, or ASEs, of the UAW 4811 completed their ratification vote, deciding 79.8% in favor of approving an agreement to extend the union’s contract. UAW 4811 is the union representing the 48,000 academic workers across the UC system. “We see (the contract extension agreement) as very promising, and clearly the vast majority of our membership agrees given the margin of the vote,” Tanzil Chowdhury, the statewide ASE chair for UAW 4811 said. “I think it puts us in a strong position, and we’re excited to get to the table in July to start hammering out that new contract.”
The contract extension means that the contract will now expire on Dec. 31, 2025, instead of their original date of May 31, 2025. The agreement also includes a 4% raise for academic student employees and a transitional funding pilot program. The UAW 4811 bargaining team initially reached a tentative agreement with the university on Nov. 15. The union vote to ratify the agreement took place between Dec. 3 and Dec. 6...
Full story at https://www.dailycal.org/news/uc/uaw-4811-votes-to-extend-contract-with-uc/article_739a5254-b842-11ef-8f2e-070fd45bf4e9.html.
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