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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:.2in"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">This letter is sent on behalf of Provost and Executive Vice President Michael T. Brown. For your convenience, the text of the letter is below.
The signed letter is attached as a pdf. </span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:.2in"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:.2in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">November 9, 2022</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:.2in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">ACADEMIC COUNCIL CHAIR SUSAN COCHRAN</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">EXECUTIVE VICE CHANCELLORS/PROVOSTS</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:.2in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Dear Colleagues:</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span>
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<p style="margin:0in">As you know, the University is in contract negotiations with the United Auto Workers (UAW) regarding four academic appointee bargaining units: Postdoctoral Scholars, Academic Researchers, Academic Student Employees (teaching assistants/readers/tutors),
and Graduate Student Researchers. As explained below, all except the Academic Student Employees are typically paid on external grant funding.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in">Given the valued relations these employees have with faculty and the critical roles they play in our instructional and research missions, I judged it to be important that faculty understand what we are offering the UAW.
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<p style="margin:0in">Outlined below are the University’s current offers for each UAW bargaining unit, as well as the University’s responses to union priorities.
<b>I ask that you please promptly share this letter with all faculty.</b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Highlights of UC's proposals for each bargaining unit<br>
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</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Postdoctoral Scholars – Full-time employees who primarily work from external grant funds.</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">UC is proposing a new UC salary scale for postdocs which offers an average minimum
<b>7.5% increase</b> above the current scale.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:13.7pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-13.7pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2">
<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">UC’s proposed pay increases include annual range adjustments of
<b>3%</b> and experience-based step movement annually, resulting in approximately a
<b>6.8% pay increase for every postdoc on scale in each year of the contract.</b></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">UC is proposing a new child care reimbursement program for eligible postdocs which would provide up to
<b>$2500</b> for child care costs annually for qualified dependents.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">UC has offered a parental benefit of
</span><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">four weeks of paid family medical leave</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> for postdocs who are in their first year, and
<b>eight weeks of paid family medical leave</b> <span style="color:black;background:white">
for Family Medical Leave-eligible employees</span> for family care and bonding, with a maximum combination of eight weeks of pay for family care and bonding per year.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">UC postdocs can choose to participate in the Postdoctoral Scholar Benefit Plans which include medical, dental, vision, life, AD&D, short-term disability, and voluntary long-term
disability.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Postdocs shall also continue to be eligible to participate in UC’s retirement plan(s) consistent with prior participation terms.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b>Academic Student Employees (teaching assistants/readers/tutors) – Employees who work 20 hours or less a week while earning their graduate or doctoral degree.
</b></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">UC has offered a salary scale increase of
<b>7%</b> for all salaried ASEs in year one of the contract followed by a <b>3%</b> increase in each subsequent year.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:13.7pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-13.7pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2">
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">UC’s offer includes an hourly wage increase of
<b>$1.50 per hour</b> for all hourly ASEs (approximately <b>5-8%</b> increases) in year one of the contract, and a
<b>$1.00</b> hourly rate increase (approximately <b>3-5%</b> increase) in each subsequent contract year.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white">UC is offering to increase the child care reimbursement by
<b>$750</b> per academic year, <b>from $3,300 to $4,050</b>, with an additional increase for eligible ASEs working during a summer session (from $1,100 to $1,350 for the summer).</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white">UC’s offer includes increasing paid pregnancy leave
<b>from six to eight weeks </b>and paid personal medical leave/baby bonding/care for family members
<b>from four to five</b> weeks.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:13.7pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-13.7pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2">
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">UC has proposed
<b>to cover 100%</b> <b>of campus fees</b> for qualified ASEs, up from $100 per quarter and $150 per semester. This represents an increase of
<b>over $1,000</b> per year on certain campuses<span style="color:black;background:white">, in addition to the
<b>100%</b> coverage of tuition, student services fees, and health care already provided to qualified ASEs</span>. This amounts to
<b>UC covering a total of $13,707 up to $22,248</b> for all tuition and fees for eligible ASEs, depending on the amount of tuition and fees assessed by the campus.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">UC offers eligible ASEs participation in UC-sponsored student health insurance plans to the same degree as other eligible students. UC-sponsored student health insurance plans
include the multicampus UC Student Health Insurance Plan (UC SHIP).</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">ASEs shall also continue to be eligible to participate in UC’s retirement plan(s) consistent with prior participation terms.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Graduate Student Researchers - Graduate student employees who work 20 hours a week or less while earning their graduate or doctoral degree. These graduate student employees
are paid primarily from external grant funds. </span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">UC has proposed dropping the bottom two salary points of the salary scale, which results in
<b>17-26%</b> increases for GSRs currently on the two bottom salary points.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The UC proposal also increases the current minimum GSR salary scale by
<b>6%</b> and the increments between salary points to <b>7%</b>. <b>The majority of the bargaining unit would see 9-10%</b> increases in year one of the contract, with a
<b>3%</b> increase in each subsequent year.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white">UC’s offer increases the child care reimbursement by
<b>$750</b> per academic year, <b>from $3,300 to $4,050</b>, with an additional increase in child care reimbursement for eligible GSRs working during the summer (from $1,100 to $1,350 for the summer).</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white">UC’s offer includes
<b>eight weeks </b>for paid pregnancy leave and <b>five</b> weeks for paid personal medical leave/baby bonding/care for family members.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">UC’s proposal covers
<b>100% of campus fees </b>for qualified GSRs. This represents an increase of <b>
more than $1,000</b> per year on certain campuses.<b><span style="color:black;background:white">
</span></b><span style="color:black;background:white">This is in addition to a previous UC proposal that covers
<b>100% </b>of tuition, student services fees, and health care coverage for qualified GSRs.</span> This amounts to UC covering a total of
<b>$13,707 up to $22,248</b> for all tuition and fees for eligible GSRs, depending on the amount of tuition and fees assessed by the campus.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white">Eligible GSRs may participate in
</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">UC-sponsored student health insurance plans including the multicampus UC
<span style="color:black;background:#FEFEFE">Graduate Student Health Insurance Plan<span class="apple-converted-space"> (GSHIP), and UC also has proposed that eligible GSRs be able to
</span></span>participate in UC’s retirement plan(s) similar to ASEs’ participation.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:.2in"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Academic Researchers – Full-time employees who primarily work from external grant funds.</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">In year one of the contract, UC has proposed a
<b>4% increase</b>, with annual <b>3%</b> increases in each subsequent contract year, resulting in a
<b>total increase of 16% </b>over the life of the contract. The general range adjustments are in addition to the regular merit program for which Academic Researchers are eligible.
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white">Pay for Family Care and Bonding (PFCB): UC is offering
<b>eight weeks of 100% paid leave time</b> for Family Medical Leave-eligible employees for parental bonding, caring for a family member with a serious health condition, for military caregiver leave, or qualifying exigency leave.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">UC is offering eligible Academic Researchers access to the retirement, medical, dental, housing programs, and other benefit programs generally available to other non-represented
non-faculty academic employees. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">UC’s responses to priority union issues</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Fair pay:
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">UC is committed to providing fair compensation to all academic employees. Due to the different roles of each of the UAW-represented groups, compensation for each bargaining unit necessarily
varies. Salary proposals for graduate student employees are based on part-time employment. The full-time equivalent salary proposal for graduate student employees can generally be determined by taking the salary proposal and multiplying it by two.
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Respectful work environment: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">UC has listened closely to the UAW and bargaining unit members’ concerns about workplace environment issues and has reached a tentative agreement with
the union on the issue.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Housing:</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> The UAW is asking that UC
<span style="color:black;background:white">increase wages such that no bargaining unit member pays more than 30% of their salary toward their housing costs, with wage increases tied to housing costs.</span> Affordable housing remains an issue for individuals
and families throughout California, including for many UC students, faculty, and staff. On average, through University policy and action, UC student housing rents systemwide are
<b>20-25%</b> below market rates, with some campuses providing even deeper discounts. UC has offered wage increases for all UAW members which would further help them meet their housing needs.
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<p style="margin:0in;background:white"><b><span style="color:black">Transportation subsidies:</span></b><span style="color:black"> The UAW is asking that UC cover 100% of the cost of
<span style="background:white">regional public transit passes for all bargaining unit members; provide cash incentives to take public transit or bike to work; and subsidize the purchase of bicycles, including e-bikes.</span> At UC campuses, not only are UAW
members who are students able to participate in transit and parking-related services on the same basis as other employees, eight of UC’s 10 campuses offer some form of student transit subsidy. In addition, UC has offered to pay 100% of campus fees for eligible
appointments which, if accepted by the UAW, means all existing student-funded transit discounts would be fully funded by UC.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;background:white"><b><span style="color:black">Bridge funding:</span></b><span style="color:black"> The UAW is asking that UC supply up to $200,000 in bridge funding for up to two years for Academic Researchers who are Principal Investigators
and who have lost extramural support. However, most academic appointees who are Principal Investigators do not have such funding available to them now.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">International student fees:</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> The UAW is requesting that international students in bargaining
units be exempt from paying non-resident supplemental tuition, which is a financial benefit not afforded to other students and would result in greater total compensation for international student employees than other student employees.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in">The above information, as well as the University’s position on the UAW’s announced strike, is available at
<a href="https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/UAW">https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/UAW</a>. Faculty members are encouraged to visit the website as updates will be posted in in the coming days.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">I hope you find this information helpful.
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">We value our academic appointees and are committed to continuing to negotiate in good faith and achieving fair contracts that support our university community.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:.2in;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">I will continue to update you on further developments. Meanwhile, if you have any questions,
please contact your local Academic Personnel or Labor Relations office.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:.2in;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Sincerely,</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:.2in;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Michael T. Brown, Ph.D.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:.2in;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:.2in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">cc: President Drake</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:.2in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Chancellors</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:.2in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Academic Council Vice Chair Steintrager</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:.2in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Nava</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:.2in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Vice President Lloyd</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:.2in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Vice Provost Haynes
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:.2in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Associate Vice President Matella
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:.2in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Associate Vice Provost Lee</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:.2in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Executive Director Lin</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:.2in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Executive Director Silas</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:.2in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Deputy General Counsel Woodall</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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