For recent Postdoc news, postdoc unionization check my blog http://postdocunion.blogspot.com.
After a prolonged battle to form a union at the UC campuses, it is time now to look for celebration, the UC PostDocs majority of the over 6000 PostDocs have signed up to join PRO/UAW, they are waiting to here from the labour board PERB to move on to the next step.
Here is the campus wide list of postdocs:
| UC Berkeley | 1150 |
| UC Davis | 800 |
| UC Irvine | 344 |
| UC Los Angeles | 1110 |
| UC Merced | 20 |
| UC Riverside | 200 |
| UC Santa Barbara | 300 |
| UC Santa Cruz | 148 |
| UC San Diego | 907 |
| UC San Francisco | 1100 |
| Total | 6059 |
The above numbers are approximate and were correct to within 10 in
March 2008.
Numbers are taken from the site for postdocs of UC: http://www.ucpostdoc.org/Members
