Legal Documents

Motion for Summary Judgment Responses:

Prehearing Statements in Response to Objection:

University Objection filed on April 10th:

University's Objection Memo

Documents from the ALRA pertaining to the "showing of interest":

AGWA/UAW Petition filed on February 22nd

This was the second petition we filed with the unit description changed, in response to our previous communications with the lawyers, from one based on work duties (as is standard elsewhere in the country) to one based on student status. We did not grant an extension beyond the automatic 10 day response period.

AGWA/UAW Petition filed on December 9th 2022

This was the first petition we filed (with a supermajority of our unit signing cards) to represent a unit of ~425 students doing Graduate Research Assistant, Teaching Assistant, or Service/Engagement Assistant work.

The university had 10 days to respond with the list of students that fit the unit description. Since it was just before finals and winter break, we agreed to give the university an extension. We communicated several times with the university's lawyers and were told they were finding it difficult to distinguish which undergraduates were 'doing substantially similar work' based employment codes because the same employment codes are used for a wide variety of jobs. We were told they would be happier to avoid the issue of undergrads and focus on and 'all-graduates' unit.

52 days after we filed the petition, the university submitted a response with ~1200 students listed, including all undergrads with an employment code that matched any code also associated with a grad student. This included residence hall assistants, student firefighters, and others whose job titles we had already identified and specified as not being included in the unit we claimed to represent.