Spring 2023 Post Strike Implementation

Including future-looking financial modeling, UAW contract implementation, contract billing and effort reporting for the strike period. This workgroup is broken into three distinct teams focused on the following specific areas:

• UAW Contract Implementation: This team will focus on matters such as training the Berkeley Regional Services (BRS) organization, Sponsored Projects Office and Industry Alliances Office on the new pay rates, GSR/GSI steps and the integration with grants and budgets. Secondly, the team will develop and deliver training for faculty (including Principal Investigators), department managers, academic personnel analysts and others who might supervise UAW workers on the new contract. Lastly, this team will ensure the accuracy of new data input into UCPath. We encourage you to rely on official university sources for information, such as UCOP, Employee and Labor Relations (ELR), the Academic Personnel Office (APO), and the post-strike recovery website that has been established.
• Contract billing and payroll recovery for strike period: This team will focus on the distribution, completion and processing of attestation forms which will record the time worked during the strike. Secondly, the team will develop recommendations and procedures for grant billing and effort-reporting for the grant period.
• Financial modeling: This team will model UAW affected salary and benefit increases at the department, employee type and contract/grant level over varying time horizons. The model will be made available to administrators, deans and chairs for decision making.
• Lead: Rosemarie Rae, VC-Finance and CFO
• Staff: Rosemary Kim, AVC & COS for the Office of the VCF

Resolving grading issues from fall semester, re-engaging with GSIs and UGSIs, long-term consequences on instruction.

• Leads: Oliver O’Reilly, VPUE; and Mary Ann Smart, Chair, Berkeley Division of the Academic Senate
• Staff: Sumali Tuchrello, Project Policy Analyst, Office of the VPUE

Managing relationships with funders (e.g., research funded by federal agencies), repairing relationships with graduate students that may have been affected by the strike.

• Leads: Victoria Plaut, VPF; Kathy Yelick, VCR; and Mary Ann Smart, Chair, Berkeley Division of the Academic Senate
• Staff: Dana Jantz, Project Policy Analyst, Office of the VPF

Supporting employees, faculty, and students with rebuilding connections and community; understanding the impacts of the strike on graduate programs moving forward.

• Leads: Lisa Garcia Bedolla, VP, Graduate Studies & Dean of the Graduate Division; and Sunny Lee, AVC & Dean of Students
• Staff: Marissa Berwick, Executive Assistant, Office of the Dean of Students

Ensuring the campus community is informed about post-strike recovery efforts and has access to information needed to move forward.

• Lead: Diana Harvey, AVC, Communications and Public Affairs
• Staff: Janet Gilmore, Senior Director of Strategic Communications, Communications & Public Affairs