2025 CONTRACT

ACTION TEAM

What is the Contract Action Team (CAT)?

It takes all 36,000 Academic Student Employees (ASEs) working together to win a contract we deserve. In every department, lab, cohort, building, and teaching team, ASEs need to come together to shape our bargaining priorities and take action to improve our workplace rights. In order to build the mass, supermajority participation we need, ASEs across the UC system are joining the Contract Action Team (CAT) to make sure their coworkers stay informed and ready to win a strong contract.

What Do CATs Do?

Members of the Contract Action Team are committing to:

  • Publicly participate: attend bargaining sessions, wear union gear, and be a visible union supporter.

  • Keep others informed: talk to coworkers about bargaining, relay updates from our Bargaining Committee, answer questions, and address concerns

  • Mobilize coworkers: make sure colleagues know the stakes of this contract fight, are participating in shaping and ratifying bargaining priorities, and are standing together to put pressure on UC through rallies and other direct actions, — up to and including a strike if justified and necessary

  • Expand the CAT: identify coworkers who can do all of the above in their own lab, cohort, floor, teaching team, or other group of workers

How Do I Join the CAT (or Nominate Somebody Else)?

Anyone can nominate themself or a coworker to the CAT, and anyone nominated gets started on joining the CAT with a short training and onboarding. You should nominate a coworker who is respected by their colleagues or is the go-to person for questions about our union and contracts.

CAT Members

UC BERKELEY

  • Max Buettner

    GSR, Ancient Greek and Roman Studies

  • Christian Rhoads

    GSI, Ancient Greek and Roman Studies

  • Tania Osorio Harp

    GSI, Architecture

  • Ellie Penner

    GSR, Art History

  • Korina Vlahos

    GSI/GSR, Chemistry

  • Rahoul Banerjee Ghosh

    GSI/GSR, Chemistry/Physics

  • Conor Broderick

    GSR, Chemistry

  • Sohom Das

    GSR, Chemistry/Physics

  • Daniel Chabeda

    GSI, Chemistry

  • Liz Hazen

    GSR, Chemistry

  • Kirya Miller

    GSI/GSR, Chemistry

  • David Murillo

    GSI/GSR, Chemistry

  • Elise Nicol

    GSR, Chemistry

  • Cecille de Laurentis

    GSI, City & Regional Planning

  • Ruby Kosewicz-Strickland

    GSI/Reader, City & Regional Planning

  • Tvetene Carlson

    GSR, Civil and Environmental Engineering

  • Anthony DeSalvo

    GSR, Civil and Environmental Engineering

  • Caroline McCormack

    GSR, Civil and Environmental Engineering

  • Richard Villagomez

    GSI, Data Science

  • Luca Adorni

    Reader, Economics

  • Marion Carr

    Reader, Economics

  • Monica Essig Aberg

    Reader, Economics

  • Yu-Ting Ho

    GSI, Economics

  • Matthew Murillo

    GSR, Economics

  • Katherine Hightower

    GSR, Chemistry

  • Sebastián Puerta

    GSI/GSR, Economics

  • Zimei Xia

    Tutor, Economics

  • Serena Caraco

    GSR, EECS

  • Jonah Bedouch

    Undergraduate Course Staff, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

  • Noemi Chulo

    Undergraduate Course Staff, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

  • Zoë Bell

    GSR, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

  • Gabe Classon

    Undergraduate Course Staff, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

  • Micah Murray

    GSR, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

  • Alyssa Smith

    Undergraduate Course Staff, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

  • Christopher Strong

    GSR, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

  • Aileen Wu

    Undergraduate Course Staff, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

  • Alana Ballagh

    GSR, Energy and Resources Group

  • Lily Kirby

    GSI, Energy and Resources Group

  • Sophie Pesek

    GSR, Energy and Resources Group

  • Sunny Singhal

    GSR, Energy and Resources Group

  • Gabrielle Canning

    GSI, History

  • Yuhang Wu

    GSI, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research

  • Rain Freeman-Moore

    GSI, Law

  • Michael Guan

    GSI, Law

  • Oton De Souza

    GSI, Law

  • Ben Gelman

    GSR, Political Science

  • Carsten Grove

    Tutor, Law

  • Blue Miller

    GSI, Law

  • Henry Nicholson

    GSI, Law

  • Isaiah Paik

    Tutor, Law

  • Cole Salton

    GSI, Law

  • Henry Van Bemmel

    Reader/Tutor, Law

  • Kari Zimmerman

    GSR, Law

  • Tanzil Chowdhury

    GSR/Reader, Materials Science and Engineering

  • Sydney Hemenway

    GSR, Materials Science and Engineering

  • Luis Rangel DaCosta

    GSR, Materials Science and Engineering

  • Reed Yalisove

    GSR, Materials Science and Engineering

  • Eric Weiner

    GSR, Materials Science and Engineering

  • William Fisher

    GSI, Math

  • Zakkai Goriely

    GSI, Math/Logic

  • Raymond Guo

    GSI, Math

  • Charley Hutchison

    GSI, Math

  • Aidan Kelley

    GSR, Math

  • John Nolan

    GSI, Math

  • Iris Rosenblum-Sellers

    GSI, Math

  • Tom Schang

    GSI, Math

  • Spencer Schutz

    GSR, Mechanical Engineering

  • Peter Toma

    GSR, Mechanical Engineering

  • Ben Rose

    GSR, Molecular and Cellular Biology

  • Claudia Medrano

    GSR, Molecular and Cell Biology

  • Curtis Rumrill

    GSI, Music

  • Eduardo Sandoval

    GSR, Neuroscience

  • Sunjae Shim

    GSR, Neuroscience

  • Alex Droster

    GSR, Nuclear Engineering

  • Lulu Russell

    GSR, Nuclear Engineering

  • Amanda Gunawan

    GSR, Nutritional Science and Toxicology

  • Yuchen He

    GSR, Nutritional Science and Toxicology

  • Kaitlyn Vitangcol

    GSI, Nutritional Science and Toxicology

  • Eric Wei

    GSI, Nutritional Science and Toxicology

  • Zeynep Burce Gumuslu

    GSI, Philosophy

  • Susanna McGrew

    GSI, Philosophy

  • Ahmed Abdalla

    GSR, Physics

  • Burhan Ahmed

    GSR, Physics

  • Albany Blackburn

    GSR, Physics

  • Noelle Blose

    GSI/GSR, Physics

  • Enzo Brandani

    GSI, Physics

  • Sam D'Ambrosia

    GSI, Physics

  • Abigail Derrico

    GSR, Physics

  • Tucker Hwang

    GSR, Physics

  • Bethany Suter

    GSR, Physics

  • Eric Yu

    GSI, Physics

  • Oded Ritov

    GSR, Psychology

  • Elinor Simek

    GSR, Public Health

  • Jenny Guarino

    Tutor, Public Policy

  • Meredith Song

    GSI, Public Policy

  • Danny Pham

    GSI/GSR, Romance Languages and Literatures

  • David Kurkovskiy

    GSI, Slavic Languages and Literatures

  • Jacob Champlin

    GSR, Transportation Engineering / City and Regional Planning

  • Reem Almagati

    GSR, Vision Science

  • Maxwell Greene

    GSR, Vision Science

  • Stephanie Reeves

    GSR, Vision Science

LAWRENCE BERKELEY LAB

  • Ruby Kharod

    GSR, Chemistry

  • Zachery Donnellan

    GSR, Chemistry

  • Dalton Stanley

    GSR, Chemistry

  • Mackinzie Farnell

    GSR, Materials Science and Engineering

  • Calton Kong

    GSR, Materials Science and Engineering

  • Jacob Sebastian

    GSR, Nuclear Science

UC DAVIS

  • Willa Gibson

    Tutor, AATC

  • Ben Rietmann

    GSR, Agricultural and Resource Economics

  • Maykal Tsonov

    TA, Animal Biology

  • Neo Bao

    TA, Chemistry

  • Katie Chappell

    TA, English

  • Ivey Wexler

    TA, English

  • Emily Weintraut

    TA, Food Science

  • Johanna Keigler

    GSR, Food Science

  • Carolina Rios

    GSR, Genetics

  • Arish Naim

    GSR, Materials Science and Engineering

  • Caleb Farrow

    GSI, Mathematics

  • Julia Finestone

    TA/GSR, Microbiology

  • Anna Jo Muhich

    GSR, Plant Sciences

  • Maria Rottersman

    GSR, Plant Sciences

  • Gabrielle Wyatt

    GSR, Plant Biology

  • Danielle De La Pascua

    TA/GSR, Population Biology

  • Maia Southwick

    TA, Psychology

  • Nora Wolf

    TA/GSR, Psychology

  • Savannah Maw

    GSR, Neuroscience

UC IRVINE

  • Yasmine Alam

    GSR, Biological Chemistry

  • Sam Lassers

    TA/GSR, Biomedical Engineering

  • Christian Andrade Herrera

    GSR, Biomedical Engineering

  • Connor Seto

    TA, Chemistry

  • Justin Chen

    TA, Chemistry

  • Teresa Palacios Diaz

    TA, Chemistry

  • Elise Smentek

    TA/GSR, Chemistry

  • Maya El-Ajouz

    GSR, Civil and Environmental Engineering

  • Tess Hachey

    TA/GSR, Civil & Environmental Engineering

  • Sarah Balaian

    TA/GSR, Civil & Environmental Engineering

  • Azara Boschee

    TA/GSR, Civil & Environmental Engineering

  • Pratyush Poduval

    GSR, Computer Science

  • Nick Baron

    TA, Computer Science

  • Joshua Munsey

    Tutor, Computer Science

  • Ali Risheh

    TA/GSR, Computer Science

  • Sydney Prange

    TA/GSR, Developmental and Cell Biology

  • Emily Parise

    TA, Drama

  • Julian Arnheim

    GSR, Earth System Science

  • Lili Manzo

    GSR, Earth System Science

  • Tia Chung-Swanson

    TA/GSR, Earth System Science

  • Aislinn Fox

    TA, Earth System Science

  • Ava McIlvaine

    GSR, Earth System Science

  • Pritha Sengupta

    TA, Education

  • Taryn Williams

    GSR, Education

  • Lenny Korob

    TA, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

  • Julian Levine

    TA, Education

  • Seth Van Doren

    GSR, Education

  • Joseph Sweetnam

    TA, English

  • Jamie Rawn

    TA, English

  • Isabel Bartholomew

    TA, English

  • Raphael Charrassin

    GSR, Earth System Science

  • Alex Rudenshiold

    TA, Film & Media Studies

  • Kien Le

    TA, Film & Media Studies

  • Hanna Kawamoto

    GSR, History

  • Mark K. Gradoni

    TA/GSR, History/Iranian Studies

  • Novia Wong

    TA/GSR, Informatics

  • Jordan Brown

    GSR, Materials Science & Engineering

  • Marquez Balingit

    GSR, Materials Science and Engineering

  • Jessie Altieri

    GSR, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics

  • Zahara Keulen

    GSR, Neurobiology and Behavior

  • Rachel Torres

    GSR, Philosophy

  • Rafael Umeda

    GSR, Physics & Astronomy

  • Izzy Ginnett

    GSR, Physics & Astronomy

  • Tyler Smith

    GSR, Physics & Astronomy

  • Claire Rogers

    TA, Physics & Astronomy

  • Savannah Plaskon

    TA/GSR, Political Science

  • Michelle Ceballos

    GSR, Sociology

  • Atalanta Copeman-Papas

    TA, Sociology

  • Lee Purvey

    TA, Visual Studies

  • Dada Wang

    GSR, Visual Studies

UCLA

  • Tiff Do

    Tutor, Academic Advancement Program

  • Libbi Ponce

    TA, Art

  • Rachel Glaser

    GSR, Art History

  • Adam Monohon

    TA, Art History

  • Qiushuo Wang

    GSR, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences

  • Alyssa Arnheim

    GSR, Bioengineering

  • Andrew Ramirez

    TA/GSR, Bioengineering

  • Jon Mah

    GSR, Bioinformatics

  • Arwen Cai

    TA, Chemistry

  • Richard Liu

    TA, Chemistry and Biochemistry

  • Brett Hu

    TA, Communication

  • Anny Viloria Winnett

    TA/GSR, Community Health Sciences

  • Zheng Luo

    GSR, Computer Science

  • Emerson Whittaker

    GSR, Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences

  • Kaija Gahm

    GSR, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

  • Victor Li

    TA, Economics

  • Jeffrey Aqua

    TA, English

  • Claire Bekker

    GSR, Environmental Health Sciences

  • Ellen von zur Muehlen

    TA, European Languages and Transcultural Studies

  • Willow Coleman

    GSR, Geography

  • Michael Wasney

    GSR, Human Genetics

  • Garret May

    TA/GSR, Materials Science and Engineering

  • Albert Baeumer

    TA, Math

  • Maciej Gluchowski

    TA/GSR, Math

  • Jon Hillery

    TA, Math

  • Sam Qunell

    TA/GSR, Math

  • Advika Rajapakse

    TA/GSR, Math

  • Jas Singh

    TA/GSR, Math

  • Ben Slater

    TA, Math

  • Sina Nabiee

    TA, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

  • Samantha Herman

    GSR, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering

  • Samantha Lannan

    TA, Philosophy

  • Albert Countryman

    TA, Physics

  • Zack Pine

    GSR, Physics & Astronomy

  • Milan Mandigo-Stoba

    GSR, Physics & Astronomy

  • Casey Li

    GSR, Physics & Astronomy

  • Tanner Demaree

    GSR, Psychology

  • Anthony Miceli

    TA/GSR, Psychology

  • Kaia Sargent

    GSR, Psychology

  • Steph Wert

    GSR, Psychology

  • Claire Courtney

    TA, Public Policy

  • Noura Alaboudi

    TA, School of Theater, Film and Television

  • Arlo Hatcher

    TA, Sociology

  • Jason Contino

    TA/GSI, Sociology

  • Aya Konishi

    TA/GSR, Sociology

UC MERCED

  • Tony Osborne

    GSR, Chemistry and Biochemistry

  • Leo Niehorster-Cook

    TA, Cognitive and Information Sciences

  • Emilie Cobb

    TA, Interdisciplinary Humanities

  • Metzli Montero

    GSR, Materials and Biomaterials Science and Engineering

  • Mason Clark

    Tutor, Physics

  • Ethan Custodio

    TA, Physics

  • Sarina Rodriguez

    TA, Public Health

  • Vanessa Sanchez

    GSR, Quantitative Systems of Biology

  • Felicia Cruz-Fernandez

    TA, Sociology

  • Faith Her

    TA, Sociology

  • Andrew Martin

    TA, Sociology

  • Carlo Acevedo

    TA, Spanish

  • Amirhadi Shirzadibonab

    TA, Social Sciences, Humanities & Arts

UC RIVERSIDE

  • Shun Kobayashi

    TA, Comparative Literature

  • Heeba Hartit

    TA, Comparative Literature

  • Jordan Peck

    TA, Computer Science

  • Sriradha Paul

    TA, Dance

  • Adriana Rizzo

    GSR, Earth and Planetary Science

  • Serafina Paladino

    TA, English

  • Sylvie Hansen

    TA, English

  • Rhiannon Rogers

    TA, English

  • Eliana Buenrostro

    TA, Ethnic Studies

  • Choki Gomez

    TA, History

  • Sean Keenan

    TA, History

  • Kevin Su

    TA, Math

  • William Mol

    GSR, Neuroscience

  • Sarah Gregory

    TA, Philosophy

  • Elise Johnston

    TA, Philosophy

  • Eric Zhang

    GSR, Physics and Astronomy

  • Gregory Hutchins

    TA/GSR, Political Science

  • Tyler Cohen

    TA, Sociology

  • Vinz Madrigal

    TA, Computer Engineering

UC SAN DIEGO

  • Casey Carlile

    GSR, Astronomy and Astrophysics

  • Julia Bebout

    GSR, Biological Sciences

  • Laura Beebe

    GSR, Biological Sciences

  • Neva Olliffe

    GSR, Biological Sciences

  • Sarah van Dijk

    GSR, Biomedical Sciences

  • Leigh-Ana Rossitto

    GSR, Biomedical Sciences

  • Francis Galang

    TA/GSR, Communication

  • Danea Palmer

    GSR, Chemistry & Biochemistry

  • Nathaniel Roethler

    GSR, Chemistry & Biochemistry

  • Olivia Seidel

    TA, Chemistry and Biochemistry

  • Anna Skrip

    GSR, Chemistry

  • Abigail Tripka

    GSR, Chemistry

  • Cole Kurashige

    GSR, Computer Science and Engineering

  • Deep Masanam

    GSR, Computer Science and Engineering

  • Rishabh Ranjan

    TA/GSR, Computer Science and Engineering

  • Udayan Tandon

    TA/GSR, Computer Science and Engineering

  • Matin Yarmand

    TA/GSR, Computer Science and Engineering

  • Zihao Zhou

    GSR, Computer Science and Engineering

  • Sonata Simonaitis-Boyd

    GSR, Data Science

  • Conan Minihan

    GSR, Data Science

  • Hena Ahmed

    GSR, Data Science

  • Gwenevere Frank

    GSR, Electrical Engineering

  • Zida Jin

    GSR, Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute

  • Allison Baker

    TA/GSR, History

  • Nate Schwartz

    TA, History

  • Evelia Zapién Ramos

    GSR, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

  • Toren D'Nelly-Warady

    TA, Math

  • Casey Perdue

    TA, Math

  • Sutanay Bhattacharya

    TA, Math

  • Lizzy Teryoshin

    Tutor, Math

  • Abhik Pal

    TA, Math

  • Matteo Biscotti

    GSR, Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry

  • Adam Hall

    TA/GSR, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

  • Sophie Haight

    GSR, Physics

  • Kyle Kehrer

    TA, Physics

  • Zach Brown

    GSR, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

  • Sam Schulz

    GSR, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

  • Kenneth Ray

    TA, Theatre and Dance

UC SAN FRANCISCO

  • Zuzhi Jiang

    GSR, Biochemistry

  • Riley Stockard

    GSR, Bioengineering

  • Nicholas Freitas

    GSR, Biophysics

  • Nikhil Gupta

    GSR, Biophysics

  • Minh Le

    GSR, Biophysics

  • Sean Myers

    GSR, Biophysics

  • Leah Ragosta

    GSR, Chemistry and Chemical Biology

  • Maura McDonagh

    GSR, Neurology

  • Ayush Midha

    GSR, Tetrad

  • Landon Nguyen

    GSR, Tetrad

  • David Sanchez Godinez

    GSR, Tetrad

UC SANTA BARBARA

  • Katherine Consola

    TA, Anthropology

  • Russell Nylen

    TA, Anthropology

  • Ella Moore

    TA, Bren School of Environmental Science & Management

  • Alejandro Quevedo

    GSR, Electrical and Computer Engineering

  • Alexander Abajian

    TA, Economics

  • Vade Shah

    TA/GSR, Electrical and Computer Engineering

  • Rahul Singh

    GSR, Electrical and Computer Engineering

  • Anam Mehta

    TA, Global Studies

  • Victoria Albert

    TA, History

  • Kristina Kelehan

    TA, History

  • Elena Mailander

    TA, History

  • Camilla Falancesca

    TA, History

  • Cooper Bedin

    TA, Linguistics

  • Montreal Benesch

    TA, Linguistics

  • Evan Freeland

    TA/GSR, Materials

  • Eliana Fuchs

    GSR, Materials

  • Evan Raeker

    GSR, Materials

  • Madeline Vailhe

    GSR, Materials

  • Saul Sandoval

    Reader, Math

  • Katherina Gontaryuk

    TA, Philosophy

  • Evan Green

    TA, Philosophy

  • Joaquin Becerra Espinoza

    TA/GSR, Physics

  • Aled Cuda

    TA/GSR, Physics

  • Alex Giovannone

    GSR, Physics

  • Emma Hanlon

    TA, Religious Studies

  • Sienna Parker

    GSR, Technology Management

  • Trevor Silverstein

    TA, Theater and Dance

  • Sara Sotelo

    TA, Theater and Dance

UC SANTA CRUZ

  • Ariana Cisneros

    GSR, Biomolecular Engineering

  • Jack Fox Keen

    GSR, Computer Science and Engineering

  • Jessica Gagliardi

    GSR, Earth and Planetary Sciences

  • Riley Collins

    TA/GSR, Education

  • Summer Sullivan

    TA/GSR, Environmental Studies

  • Jess Fournier

    TA, Feminist Studies

  • alex cruse

    TA, Film and Digital Media

  • Andrew Allio

    TA, History

  • Tanvi Rupakula

    TA, History

  • Mirra-Margarita Ianeva

    TA/GSR, History of Art & Visual Culture

  • Will Parrish

    TA, History of Consciousness

  • Rebecca Gross

    TA, Literature

  • Wesley Viebahn

    TA, Literature

  • Katherine Johnson-Rogers

    TA, Literature

  • Melissa Mack

    TA/GSR, Literature, Creative/Critical

  • Vidula Sonagra

    TA, Music

  • Betsy Centeno

    GSR/Tutor, Psychology