Despite teaching more than 30% of undergraduate courses, lecturers teaching at University of California campuses, including at UC Santa Cruz, have to reapply multiple times for their jobs to be considered permanent employees.
As the union representing lecturers begins negotiations on March 5 for a new contract, they’re fighting to change that, and for increased pay for instructors who for decades have said they feel like an oppressed, second-class faculty.
Jeb Purucker, the UCSC representative for UC-AFT, the union that represents lecturers, said this two-tier system doesn’t make any sense. They want permanent job status and for their work to be “valued the same as other teachers at the University of California.”
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