Your democratically-elected table team will have its first meeting with UCOP on February 19.
Updates on their negotiations will be posted here throughout the campaign.
Previous Posts
Bargaining Priority 3: Respecting our Autonomy in the Classroom
Technology plays an increasing vital role in our classrooms, but UC administrators unilaterally decide what technologies are used…. Read More
Bargaining Priority 2: Equitable Academic Freedom
As contingent faculty, we are particularly vulnerable to attacks on academic freedom, at the UC and across the United States
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Bargaining Priority 1: An End to Precarity
Unit 18 lecturers teach 30-40% of credit hours at UC, but the majority of lecturers doing this teaching must reapply for their jobs multiple times before being recognized as permanent employees…. Read More
What are your hopes for the new contract?
Katie Arosteguy“I’d like stronger contract language related to job security, workload, and compensation that recognizes the professional and critical work we do as teachers for the UC.”
Continuing Lecturer, UC Davis Writing Program
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Bargaining Update: Academic Freedom proposal presented with powerful testimony from UC-AFT (3/24/26)
Key Takeaways Article 2: Academic Freedom Members of your UC-AFT Table Team convened another session with UCOP at UCLA on Thurs. March 19th. The big action of the day was when we passed our proposal on article 2 – academic freedom. Our proposal includes significant changes to both the definition of academic freedom and the…
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Bargaining Priority 3: Respecting our Autonomy in the Classroom
UC’s Problem: Lecturers don’t have control over the technologies we are forced to use. Technology plays an increasing vital role in our classrooms, but UC administrators unilaterally decide what technologies are used. UC signs expensive contracts with third-party vendors, giving them access to our course materials and our classrooms without our consent, and imposes technological…
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Bargaining Priority 2: Protecting our Academic Freedom
UC’s Problem: Academic freedom is under attack on campus and beyond As contingent faculty, we are particularly vulnerable to attacks on academic freedom, at the UC and across the United States. Our current contract language concerning investigations and discipline for U18 teaching faculty currently suffers from a lack of clarity and precision – areas of…