UPTE is the exclusive representative for UC's research professionals and technical employees. Join UPTE in the fight to protect and improve the rights of employees. UPTE is committed to building a UC that will provide secure jobs with fair wages and benefits.

UPTE is bargaining with UC for a better contract. Check out the bargaining timeline and the tentative bargaining schedule.

• University of California Violates Labor Law in Bargaining
  
  
• Unfair Labor Practice Fact Sheet
  
  
• 2009 Strike Brochure: Why Have We Pledged to Strike?
  
  
• Executive Pay Flyer
  
  
• Pension Flyer
  
  
• Salary Survey for Computer Resource Specialists
  
  
• Strike Pledge | Strike Brochure: The What, Why & How
  
  
• Senators urge UC President to stop linking wages to state budget:
  Letter from Senator Yee | Letter from Senator Portantino
  
  
• Contract Action Watch:
  

  2010	Jan-10
  2009	Mar-09: English, Espanol | Jun-09
  2008	Apr-08 | Aug-08: English, Espanol | Oct-08: English, Espanol | Dec-08: English | Spanish

  
  

• UPTE gets $ for TX/RX: see list of job titles and raises
  
  
• Defending our Pension and Benefits
  
  
• UC Union Coalition Pension Bargaining Updates
  
  
• 2006-2007 Cost Increase Summary
  

Contract Implementation Committees:

• Equity Committee: UC pay dramatically lags market rates for many of our job titles. We work together to push for additional equity increases above and beyond the raises in our contract.
  
  
• Compensation Evaluation Committee: Evaluate the real cost to the University of the raises we have negotiated in our contract.
  
  
• Hazardous Work and Safety Committee: Establish standards for hazardous work to improve safety and seek supplemental compensation
  
  

New job titles in TX/RX bargaining unit:

• Principal Telescope Technicians: Principle Telescope Technicians have been successfully brought into TX unit and will receive wage increases similar to those already negotiated for other TX employees. They will benefit from the pension protections and negotiations in the TX contract.
  
  
• Clinical Research Coordinators: UPTE-CWA has petitioned to include Clinical Research Coordinators in the RX unit as they do work essentially the same as Staff Research Associates. UPTE-CWA will push to have them included in all the cost-of-living and step increases already part of the TX/RX contract.
  
  
• Technology Support Analyst (TSA) III: UPTE-CWA has petitioned to include the
  TSA IIIs in the TX unit as they do work essentially the same as TSA I and IIs but with more experience. UPTE-CWA will push to have them included in all the cost-of-living and step increases already part of the TX/RX contract.
  
  
• Producer/Directors: UC reclassified many projectionists into the producer/director job series to get them out of the union, in particular at the San Diego campus. UPTE-CWA petitioned to include all but the top title in the series in the TX unit and UC has agreed. The 50 people in this series became UPTE members in the Fall of 2008. Many of them, including former UCSD UPTE TX bargainer Art Daly, had been members of UPTE previously.