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Professional.

[tanzil @only_tanz]

I’m sorry, but this is awful advice for researcher strikes. Everyone’s labor is “entangled” with their personal progress and buying into the exceptionalism of STEM research as fundamentally different from other labor creates the STEM inequity described in this article.

[Hannah Rattu Mandias 🦭 @HannahRattu]

So incredibly proud to be an organizer at UCSD, where we absolutely crushed it and led all the UC campuses w/ the highest # of YES votes!!! We did it!!! 😭🥳

[UAW 4811 @uaw_4811]

Academic Student Employees and Student Researchers ratified our new contracts!
The vote breakdown was 11,386 to 7,097 for Academic Student Employees and 10,057 to 4,640 for Student Researchers. #FairUCnow

[Bored Scientist Cartoons @CartoonsBored]

It is the LAST day to vote on our union contracts for UC grad students! I voted YES on Monday, and have spent the week talking to people about the yes vote. So many lies ("I'm not getting a raise until 2024?", "there's no access needs?", etc) inspired this comic. #fairUCnow

[Tia Chung-Swanson @tiachungswanson]

As a 1st year PhD student, I did not expect to spend half of my first quarter on strike. I didn't expect to be involved in organizing at all, I was just going to keep my head down and be as productive as possible, the kind of toxic productivity that academia encourages.

[Ximistry @Ximistry1]

Today is the last day to vote! Request that missing ballot by noon. I'm super excited and I hope our contracts pass.

[Bored Scientist Cartoons @CartoonsBored]

as evidenced by their use of fallacies throughout. Their attached resources demonstrate the true lack of organization and thought behind the long-haul strike. This is a dissection of that document. Comments are in red, original document in black. 2/2
https://t.co/TxGYIzSZPH

[Bored Scientist Cartoons @CartoonsBored]

Some members from our UAW bargaining team recently published a FAQ on why you should vote no on the contract. To say nothing of making the University of California’s case for them, the interest of this FAQ is more to push an agenda than to have a debate 1/2

[Mark K. Gradoni @_Snarkaeologist]

Because the UC hasn't withheld our pay. Our strike assistance was paid for by Michigan auto workers, New York grad students, CA aerospace workers, UAW members across the country.

We got the pay we were owed, so we return it to help support other workers striking for contracts.

[Bored Scientist Cartoons @CartoonsBored]

To get a #fairUCnow, we need a real strategy. Everyone who is voting yes on this proposal will be going back to work. The power of the strike will be at least halved heading into impasse, not counting the people who are being told to vote no but still go back to work.

[RnF Academic Workers for a Democratic Union @RanknFileUCI]

@resist_uci What's the actual strategy to win more though?
We've seen various groups say "we just have to strike longer" and other accounts claiming we'll just magically replicate the last four years of organizing in two weeks.

We're academic workers: we need a *plan*, not vibes.

[RnF Academic Workers for a Democratic Union @RanknFileUCI]

@resist_uci What's the actual strategy to win more though?
We've seen various groups say "we just have to strike longer" and other accounts claiming we'll just magically replicate the last four years of organizing in two weeks.

We're academic workers: we need a *plan*, not vibes.

[Lex @postlexical]

Incredible minds at work

[Mark K. Gradoni @_Snarkaeologist]

Speaking of wild propaganda: this tweet. It's one thing to oppose a TA (our union only works if it's democratic) but this line about grievances not mattering...Buddy, that's why we formed a union. Grievances are how we *enforce* the contract.

[tanzil @only_tanz]

This is what the No campaign is currently running on — someone who doesn’t want you to vote is not your friend. If SRs and ASEs split bases on the boss’s artificial division, we all lose.

[Diabooty @jasminoacids]

Striking disabled UC workers wrote an open letter in support of the disability access rights won through our union contracts. I’ve seen some misinformation about the Access Needs article, so I hope this is clarifying!

[UAW 4811 @uaw_4811]

Congratulations 💪

[zach @offtargeteffect]

“we don’t need everyone just a tiny group of radicals” to “why are we just a tiny group of radicals” pipeline

[Bored Scientist Cartoons @CartoonsBored]

11>8. That is a 58% majority. It seems to me like there are 8 bargaining team members who want to play games with 36,000 peoples wages. Thank goodness they were voted down by the majority, I want a BT that makes sensible choices, not irresponsible risks.

[zach @offtargeteffect]

honestly puzzling how people who explicitly endorse a minoritarian approach to organizing are continually shocked they find themselves in the minority?

[Jean (they/elle) @chanyeolt12]

Just as folks have every right to be empowered to vote Yes or No and to share their perspectives, I'll share my own honest personal story and reasoning for voting yes.