On Wednesday, UC management showed up to bargain with Research and Public Service Professionals (RPSPs) and Student Services and Advising Professionals (SSAPs) with seven proposals — the most they’ve ever brought to a bargaining session. While at first it appeared they had heard our message that it’s time to get serious, the content of their proposals proved otherwise. Their opening wages proposal completely fails to address the soaring cost of living and their counter-proposal on Childcare Benefits simply hyperlinked what is already on the UC website. SSAPs and RPSPs unionized to help UC to live up to its mission and values; we are bargaining for meaningful improvements, not more of the same.
Today, we have a critical opportunity to put UC on course to a strong contract. Join the rally — rain or shine! — to urge leadership to bargain fairly and join workers in the larger fight against the federal government’s attacks on higher education.
The progress we make in the next bargaining sessions will be influenced by how much participation management sees from all 40,000 of us together rallying on every UC campus, TODAY, November 20th, at 4pm.
Read more from Wednesday’s Proposals and Counterproposals on the SSAP & RPSP Bargaining Tracker.
