2022 University of California academic workers' strike

[1] The Los Angeles Times described the unions' demands as wanting "significant pay increases, child-care subsidies, enhanced healthcare for dependents, longer family leave, public transit passes and lower tuition costs for international scholars".

[4] The unions filed 30 unfair labor practice charges with the Public Employment Relations Board, which has issued seven complaints.

[12] The agreement includes a 20-23% increase in salary, four more weeks of paid parental and family leave, childcare subsidies, longer appointments, stronger bullying protections and transportation benefits.

[18] On December 9, the UC and the remaining bargaining units reached an agreement to involve a private mediator in order to move negotiations forward.

[21] On December 16, the 36,000 graduate student researchers and teaching assistants in SRU-UAW and UAW 2865 reached a tentative agreement with the university.

At UC Davis, the Teamsters Local 2010 and California Nurses Association spoke in solidarity with the academic workers.

[27][28] A group of California members of the U.S. House of Representatives, including Katie Porter, sent a letter to the UC president expressing their support for the workers.

[30] The California Coalition for Public Higher Education wrote an op-ed in CalMatters calling for the unions to agree to mediation, concerned about the overall impact to the UC budget if workers' demands were met.

[34][35] Over 200 faculty members pledged to stop working, including withholding final grades, until the strike ends.

[37][38] Two branches of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters approved about 53,000 United Parcel Service employees to not deliver packages to UC campuses for the duration of the strike.

[39] As a result, research laboratories at UC Berkeley were disrupted and had to shut down experiments due to shortage of materials.