Today our UC-AFT Unit 17 Librarian table team met with the University for our 20th bargaining session. Since our first bargaining session at UC San Diego back in November of last year, we’re averaging 2 bargaining sessions a month—which has helped us accomplish so much! But as bargaining today reminded us, we still have some…

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August is almost over, and students are back at Berkeley, Merced, and San Francisco. This month has been packed to the gills with bargaining dates! Today your table team met with the University one more time to close out the month, and it was a long and productive day! Read on below for the updates,…

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UC-AFT Librarians gathered today at the Berkeley campus for our 18th bargaining session. The Table Team was joined by numerous supporters from four different UC campuses who helped pack our side of the bargaining table. It was a fruitful day as we made progress on several articles. Let’s get to it! UC-AFT Proposals Article 12…

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UC-AFT librarians came back to the bargaining table to address several of the economic proposals. Our entire unit was disheartened coming out of the July 29 session, during which the University made insufficient counters on salary, professional development, benefits, and more. Today the table team returned with commonsense proposals that accurately represent what librarians need…

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Last week we had a discouraging bargaining session at UCLA, when the University shared disappointing counter proposals for salary, benefits, professional development funding, and more. UC-AFT returned to the virtual bargaining table today with productive counters on several articles. We were encouraged by a great observer turnout. Read on below for more details on our…

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We were back in action today at UCLA after our Summer hiatus. It was a pretty disappointing way to end July. (There was a brief moment of levity when a giant Green June beetle flew into the negotiating room this afternoon, but that was about it.) Exasperated by the University’s failure to pass serious and…

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This update (and bargaining session) is sooner than we expected, since our earlier agreed-upon date of June 27 had to be moved up a week to accommodate the University’s court hearing next week related to the UAW 4811 strike action. Our U17 librarians came back to the table today for another round of contract bargaining…

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Our thirteenth bargaining session with UCOP started off on a happy note, as UC-AFT table team members and observers showed off our new Pride Month backgrounds on Zoom. We had a very productive session, with both sides of the table exchanging a number of articles and discussing where we still have some disagreement on the…

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Today we had our 12th contract bargaining session with the University (and the third session this month!). We had an abbreviated meeting due to table team members on both sides feeling under the weather. Thanks to bargaining on Zoom, we continued to make good progress with productive counter proposals on some key issues. Read on…

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