We are CalArts United-UAW

As faculty and staff at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), we are coming together to bargain collectively and build our united voice as employees whose work sustains this institution. We are joining the tens of thousands of academic workers at UC, USC, Caltech, and other institutions of higher education across the U.S. seeking to secure a better future through collective bargaining as part of the International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW). We join a growing movement of faculty and staff at private institutions like Harvard, Columbia, NYU, NYFA, Barnard, and ArtCenter who have organized strong unions and negotiated meaningful improvements to salary, benefits, and working conditions.

 Without collective bargaining, we have faced stagnant salaries, increasing workloads, convoluted and ineffective benefits, threats to job security, and a lack of transparency in administrative policies and decision making. Securing the terms of our compensation, benefits and working conditions through a collective bargaining agreement will prevent CalArts from making changes that impact our work experience and quality of life without our consent. As CalArts employees, we are forming a union to improve our working conditions and make the Institute a more equitable and accessible center for teaching, learning and creativity.