Current and Past Updates

Over the last few months, thousands of us Research and Public Service Professionals (RPSPs) have been talking about forming a union to protect  staff across all our positions, especially with the continuing uncertainty with federal and state funding. In March, 500 staff came together for a town hall about forming a new union; since then, support for our union has exploded, with thousands more signing union authorization cards. By May 2nd, the state labor board will start counting our cards to...

On Tuesday, thousands of UC Research and Public Services professionals and other higher education workers in UAW stood up to defend UC’s budget and research mission. Our rallies across all 10 campuses made the news statewide and raised the pressure on elected representatives to combat the funding cuts that threaten our jobs, our communities, and the health of our nation. Now’s the time to join the majority and sign your card to gain a stronger voice in the face of assaults on our work and...

I hope you are looking forward to the long weekend for Cesar Chavez Day. This year, I’m celebrating Cesar Chavez’s legacy by inviting colleagues to join me in signing union authorization cards to form our own union of research and public service professionals.  Can you sign a union authorization card today? I hope you will join me in honoring Cesar Chavez Day this way!  Many of the benefits we have today as UC employees are the result of labor organizing by workers like Cesar Chavez. I’m...

Staff at UC are coming together to address the serious threats we’re facing as an institution and gain a stronger voice to protect our critical work and our livelihoods. Those of us working in research and public service at UC are experiencing sudden pauses to our projects, uncertainty about future support of our programs, confusing communication from the administration and a disregard for staff input. We are reaching out to you and other staff in similar job titles to take action together to...