X-WebTV-Signature: 1 ETAtAhUAgHaAYv1dJYk/YMlCOWrCpad6QogCFCYab6mP44mMxAmQ6oeAhgmG9OI4 From: xcruz@webtv.net (Robert Chavez) Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 10:20:04 -0700 (MST) To: Labor-Rap@csf.colorado.edu Subject: University of California Graduate Student Strike! (fwd) --WebTV-Mail-1207577918-541 --WebTV-Mail-1207577918-541 postoffice-122.bryant.webtv.net; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 08:49:10 -0800 (PST) Return-Path: <2000seradc@galaxy.UCR.EDU> mailsorter-101.iap.bryant.webtv.net (8.8.8/ms.graham.14Aug97) with Wed, 25 Nov 1998 08:48:28 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 08:48:28 -0800 (PST) Reply-To: 2000seradc@galaxy.UCR.EDU Originator: 2000seradc@listserv Sender: 2000seradc@galaxy.UCR.EDU From: Roberto Calderon To: xcruz@webtv.net Subject: University of California Graduate Student Strike! (fwd) X-Comment: Discussion/Advocacy of Human, Labor & Civil Rights Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 08:32:51 -0800 From: Anibel Comelo Subject: UC grad student strike Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 12:52:01 -0800 From: usapres@asucla.ucla.edu (SAGE) Subject: RECOGNIZE - UNIONIZE! TAs do 60% of the teaching on campus, and TA working conditions = undergraduate learning conditions. When a TA's workload is increased, when section sizes go up, when the administration refuses to treat TAs with basic respect, the quality of education suffers. A majority of TAs at all 8 UC campuses want a union as a way of having a real say in wages, benefits, and working conditions. For most unions, attaining a verified "card majority" is enough to establish collective bargaining. But unions of academic student employees (including TAs, tutors, readers) UC-systemwide have been denied their collective bargaining rights.... *Even with card majorities. *Even after California legislators like Speaker of the Assembly Antonio Villaraigosa and Senate President Pro Tempore John Burton have written the Chancellor and expressed their support for the union. *Even with legal rulings in their favor from labor judges and the state Public Employment Relations Board (PERB). SAGE/UAW and its sister unions have done everything in their power to avert a strike. They've held sit-ins, teach-ins, informational pickets. They've written letters and lobbied. They continue to try to open talks with the Chancellor but have been consistently stonewalled. What do UC administrators say to defend their refusal to recognize the unions? Frederic Wan, Dean of Graduate Students at UCI: "If the children want better pocket money, do the parents negotiate with them? Over the issues of whether they wash the dishes and mow the lawn, should the parents bargain with them formally?" (Christian Science Monitor, 11/3/98) Robin Fisher, Associate Dean of Graduate Division, UCLA: "The fundamental issues here are intergenerational conflicts....The authority resides with those folks who are older and more experienced, but the energy resides with those who are younger and who would like to have the authority. This is nothing new, it's just the modern expression of something you would have found in the Medieval university." (Chronicle of Higher Education, 11/13/98) Chancellor Carnesale can voluntarily open talks with SAGE/UAW. You can help avert the strike by contacting the Chancellor to tell him that *TA's play an important part in education at UCLA *TA's should be treated with the same basic respect and rights accorded to every other UC employee and to thousands of TAs across the country. *Union-busting is not okay at UCLA. Chancellor Albert Carnesale's phone number is 825-2151. His e-mail is acarnesale@conet.ucla.edu. --WebTV-Mail-1207577918-541--