RPSP-UAW Rally Recap: Let’s win a fair contract!

Last Thursday, November 20th, thousands of Academic Student Employees (ASEs), Research and Public Service Professionals (RPSPs), and Student Services and Advising Professionals (SSAPs) rallied together statewide across every campus to let UC management know that...

Bargaining Update: Wages, Benefits… Rally Today!

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...

UC-UAW Bargains Together for Our Rights & Futures

RPSPs completed our second joint bargaining session with UC management this Friday, November 14th. Through two sessions, UC agreed to extend the five Tentative Agreements that our SSAPs partners negotiated to benefit RPSPs (see bargaining tracker). Now that RPSPs and...

Health Insurance Premiums

Good news – RPSPs and SSAPs have reached an agreement (link) with UC management that locks in planned healthcare premium reductions, while freezing rates for the plans whose costs UC had intended to increase in 2026. Between the 2025 and 2026 rates, the lower...

RPSPs & SSAPs kick off bargaining together

This Wednesday, October 29th, marked the first joint bargaining session in which Student Services and Advising Professionals (SSAP-UAW) and Research and Public Service Professionals (RPSP-UAW) negotiated together, sitting across from UC management to campaign for fair...