UAW 2865 Anti-Austerity Pledge / Demands for a Just Recovery
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Fight for the Public: Workers and Students, not Policing and Prisons.
Academic Student Employees call for a strong recovery from the COVID-19 public health and economic crisis. Our lawmakers and employers must put the needs of workers, students, and the most vulnerable first. In coalition with unions and community organizations across the state, UAW 2865 will hold UC administrators and our elected representatives accountable for a just recovery:
1. We demand that UC and the state commit to robust funding for education and research by restructuring financial holdings instead of cutting budgets, laying off workers, or increasing tuition.
2. We know that the only path to a real recovery lies in income replacement for those affected by the pandemic, and living wages, healthcare, and affordable housing for all; we will organize and vote for the Rental Affordability Act.
3. We will organize and vote for the Schools and Communities First ballot initiative to close corporate property tax loopholes and raise $12 billion for public education in November. We must tax the ultra-wealthy and divest from policing and incarceration to reinvest in schools and social services.
4. We will work in solidarity to end the scapegoating of immigrants and international workers that has increased during the COVID-19 pandemic; we will organize for fair visa policies and an end to discriminatory tuition practices.
5. We will organize to end the systemic racism that has amplified the effects of the pandemic on communities of color by fighting for affirmative action, an end to the extreme policing of communities of color, and no more police in our schools.
1. We demand that UC and the state commit to robust funding for education and research by restructuring financial holdings instead of cutting budgets, laying off workers, or increasing tuition.
2. We know that the only path to a real recovery lies in income replacement for those affected by the pandemic, and living wages, healthcare, and affordable housing for all; we will organize and vote for the Rental Affordability Act.
3. We will organize and vote for the Schools and Communities First ballot initiative to close corporate property tax loopholes and raise $12 billion for public education in November. We must tax the ultra-wealthy and divest from policing and incarceration to reinvest in schools and social services.
4. We will work in solidarity to end the scapegoating of immigrants and international workers that has increased during the COVID-19 pandemic; we will organize for fair visa policies and an end to discriminatory tuition practices.
5. We will organize to end the systemic racism that has amplified the effects of the pandemic on communities of color by fighting for affirmative action, an end to the extreme policing of communities of color, and no more police in our schools.