UAW 2865 President Rafael Jaime asked CUCFA to circulate this message of thanks to faculty for their support and solidarity. At this crucial phase of the strike and in the face of UC’s intransigence, he is asking us to call our elected representatives to get them to use their influence to intervene in the crisis UC has created. He supplied a draft script for the call that would end by asking those representatives to call our Chancellors to urge them to do everything possible to ensure a quick resolution through a fair contract.
Dear Faculty, On behalf of 48,000 striking academic workers, I want to thank you for your support. The solidarity you have shown—on the picket lines, at rallies, and beyond—has been so meaningful. As the fall term draws to a close, our strike is reaching a crucial phase. UC’s negotiators have entrenched themselves in the untenable position that it is acceptable for the country’s premier research and teaching institute to pay poverty wages. They would sooner sacrifice the education of over 200,000 undergraduates than pay a dignified wage to the workers who carry out the institution’s core mission. In light of their intransigence, we are asking for your support again, in mobilizing our state government to intervene in the crisis UC is creating. Please call your elected representatives and use this script to encourage them to use their influence to help win a fair contract for workers. You can find contact information for your legislators via this tool. In solidarity, Rafael Jaime Script: My name is XX and I am a Professor at the University of California [Campus]. I am calling to ask for your intervention to end the ongoing strike at UC. Graduate workers deserve a dignified wage. Their work is essential to UC, and we cannot guarantee high quality of research and instruction without them. [Tell a story of why you support graduate workers, or of how the strike has affected your ability to teach] Please, call Chancellor XX [look yours up from the table below] and urge her/him to do everything in her/his power to ensure a fair agreement is reached expediently.
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