A tentative deal was reached earlier this week for some workers, but graduate students who serve as teaching assistants continue to seek a pact.
A Riverside office building that houses University of California human resources offices is being picketed and occupied by striking graduate student workers Friday, Dec. 2.
“We have made serious attempts to reach fair agreements with UC, yet after three weeks, Graduate Workers still have not received a proposal on wages that adequately addresses our economic precarity,” Heeba Hartit, a UC Riverside teaching assistant said in a union news release. “We are sending them a wake-up call in hopes that we can return to our research and teaching with dignified working conditions.”amid calls for raises to keep up with climbing housing costs.
In addition to pay hikes of up to 29%, the agreement would provide increased family leave, childcare subsidies and lengthened appointments to ensure job security, according to a statement from United Auto Workers Local 5810. The pact must be ratified in a vote by members. Brigid Boll, a UCR graduate student and teaching assistant, said she was inside the building with six other striking employees.
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