Current and Past Updates

Yesterday, March 19, 2026, the International Executive Board of our International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW) voted to approve the joining of the Research and Public Service Professionals (RPSP) and the Student Services and Advising Professionals (SSAP) units into UAW Local 4811. This means that nearly 12,000 UC Staff employees will stand together with the 48,000 Academic Student Employees, Postdoctoral Scholars, and Academic...

Now that RPSPs and SSAPs have ratified our historic first contract that significantly raises the standard for staff across the UC system, it is time to continue growing the broader labor movement at UC and to begin enforcing our rights alongside all UC-UAW workers. After extensive conversations with workers across every campus, the elected RPSP and SSAP Bargaining Team sent a letter this week to UAW Region 6 Director Mike Miller to formally request to join Local 4811, the UAW local at the...

The ratification vote on our Tentative Agreement has now closed. With 21,161 voting and 19,359 voting in favor (91.5%), all UC-UAW contracts are now officially ratified. We’ve fought hard for our contracts and it’s finally the time to enjoy all the rights and protections we’ve won. The unit-specific results for all three UC-UAW contracts are as follows:SSAPTotal votes: 2480; Yes votes: 2460 (99.2% in favor of ratification)RPSPTotal votes: 2705; Yes votes: 2648 (97.9% in favor of...

Friday night, our Student Services and Advising Professionals (SSAP-UAW) and Research and Public Services Professionals (RPSP-UAW) bargaining teams reached a tentative agreement (TA) on a historic first contract with UC management. The agreement would raise our pay by at least 27.8% over the 4 years of the contract, create an enforceable process to request reclassification, address career stagnation as well as unreasonable workloads, cap health insurance premium increases, provide enforceable...

After an immense display of unity and readiness to strike against UC management’s unlawful bargaining practices, a full tentative agreement has been reached! After round the clock negotiations fueled by the momentum of the Last Chance Pickets, the Student Services and Advising Professionals (SSAP-UAW) and Research and Public Service Professionals (RPSP-UAW) bargaining teams have tentatively agreed with UC management on a historic first contract. The Academic Student Employee bargaining unit...

On February 25th to 26th, SSAPs and RPSPs finished our second session of mediation in Sacramento with UC management through the Public Employment Relations Board (PERB).    In this most recent session, we reached tentative agreements on Immigration and Training and Development: Immigration: Ensures protected leave to attend immigration hearings and manage legal issues; also ensures reemployment rights should work-authorization force a temporary loss of status (this is an historic,...

This past Tuesday and Wednesday, February 17th to 18th, SSAPs and RPSPs finished our first session of mediation with UC management through the Public Employment Relations Board (PERB). Our bargaining team and the University agreed to bring in a neutral third party mediator to work through difficult issues and facilitate a faster paced process. While the details of the back-and-forth in mediation are confidential, our tentative agreements will be shared on our bargaining tracker as we are able...

After months of bargaining and thousands of conversations between coworkers, 5194 staff and 16,557 Academic Student Employees have voted to authorize a ULP strike. This decisive result sends a clear message to UC management: now is the time to resolve their unfair labor practices and reach agreement on fair contracts for 40,000 workers. With 93.3% voting yes, your bargaining team is authorized to call a strike if circumstances justify. UC leadership can cease their unlawful practices at any...

Voting on ULP Strike Authorization has now closed. With 23,314 UC-UAW workers voting and 21,751 voting in favor (93.3%), the vote has PASSED in all three units. With this overwhelming result, UC management should be officially on notice that UC-UAW workers are united against their unfair labor practices and that they must bargain with all of us in good faith towards fair contracts.  Specific unit breakdown is as follows: Staff (SSAPs & RPSPs): 5597 voters with 5194 voting YES (92.80%)...

February 2-4 RPSPs and SSAPs met at the bargaining table with UC management for the three days leading up to our ULP Strike Authorization Vote. Due to mounting pressure, management finally reached agreement with us on some important, basic contract articles such as Grievance and Arbitration, but they have still not resolved their unfair labor practices that are preventing progress on our top priorities. You can help keep up the pressure by asking your coworkers to join you in voting YES on the...