UAW Local 4121 is a labor union that represents academic workers in the University of California system, including graduate student instructors, teaching assistants, graduate student researchers, postdoctoral scholars, and other academic employees. The local organizes collective bargaining, enforces contracts, and advocates for improved wages, benefits, workplace protections, and conditions for academic labor.
Collective bargaining and contract enforcement for academic workers, graduate student and postdoctoral compensation and benefits, workplace safety and anti-discrimination protections, higher education funding and affordability, academic labor rights and organizing
Member dues and fees, with organizational support from the International UAW and labor allies
International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW); other academic and graduate employee unions and labor coalitions within California and nationally
labor union (local chapter of the United Auto Workers)
