Urge Governor Gavin Newsom to instruct the University of California’s Board of Regents to bargain a fair contract with 48,000 UAW academic workers currently on strike!

Forty-eight thousand workers are on strike due to the unreasonable working conditions that they face. When the cost of living crisis collides with your poverty wages – when you watch your administrators live lavishly while you choose between child care and rent, when you work in overcrowded classrooms of students planning for their futures while you don’t have enough money for the bus ride home, when you find out that your coworker is sleeping in their car because their wages were not enough for that month’s rent and then the university chooses to bargain in bad faith – then the decision to strike becomes much easier. UAW members voted for this strike with 98% approval. They know that if they don’t fight for what they need and deserve that they Board of Regents will be happy to exploit them until they are whittled away to nothing.

The UC Board of Regents are appointed to serve the University of California system and their unwillingness to come to the table to negotiate fairly is unacceptable. The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) stands in unwavering solidarity with the 48,000 academic workers walking picket lines across the University of California system today as three United Auto Worker locals (UAW 2865, SRU-UAW, and UAW 5810) declare an open-ended unfair labor practice (ULP) strike.We demand that Gavin Newsom intervene and let the Board of Regents know that he will not tolerate unfair labor practices in our state!

Send Governor Newsom a letter to show your support for workers across the University of California system and ask your friends and family to take action as well!

Academic workers are scraping by, facing California’s steep rents, lack of job security, and zero support for working parents. And the corporate elites who make up the UC Regents want to keep it that way, insisting these workers should feel honored to be exploited by such a prestigious university. But the strike’s message is simple: academic workers are workers, and they deserve a dignified life, with living wage and childcare benefits.