I'm one of them. I made this account for opsec reasons, don't worry I'll be careful.
This came after a 5 week strike. The contract came largely as a result of tactics such as large groups going to different regents houses at 5 a.m. and waking them up.
The lowest paid teaching assistant is moving from making about $23,000/yr now to $34,000/yr by October 2024. In Los Angeles, Berkeley, and San Francisco they'll be making $36,500.
We fucking won!
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36.5k is piss for SF though
To my understanding they mostly make more than that in SF. UCSF is kind of a weird situation where they don't have undergrads and most people are doing medical research. As far as I can tell they'll actually be ending at something like 50k.
36.5k isn't a lot in Berkeley or LA either. The initial bargaining demand was for 54k. There is a group trying to organize people to vote no on the contract. Personally, I think this is foolish because we've already won a lot and a no vote probably delays things for like 9 months. The contract length is only 2.5 years, so probably not worth the delay for potential wins, if any.