Research assistants at the University of California and California State University will get the right to collective bargaining if recent California state Senate legislation is signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown, reported the Sacramento Bee on 23 August.
The bill, which would affect 14,000 research assistants in the UC system and about 2,000 at CSU schools, would extend teaching assistants’ rights and benefits to research assistants. Graduate students serving as research assistants would be included.
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