Support for UC Academic Workers

January 8, 2023

Academic workers go on strike for improved pay and working conditions at UC Davis in Davis on Nov. 14, 2022. 48,000 workers participated in the statewide strike across all UC campuses.Stacy Torres, faculty affiliate of Berkeley Center for Social Medicine, published an op-ed on the UC academic workers' strike. Sharing her own financial struggles during her time as a postdoctoral scholar and urging greater pay for these workers, Torres noted, "A new generation of struggling academic workers face hard choices amid escalating economic burdens and soaring inflation."