The purpose of this election is to fill vacant positions on the Joint Council and Bargaining Committee, and to elect delegates to the ASE Bargaining Convention.

All campuses will be holding elections for contested vacant positions on the Joint Council and/or Bargaining Committee as well as delegates for the ASE Bargaining Convention.

The election will be held entirely online via a secure voting platform. 

The election will open on Thursday, October 24 at 12:01am PT.

The election will close on Friday, October 25 at 5pm PT. 

You will receive an email from vote@simplyvoting.com under the name UAW 4811. The email will contain a link to the voting website and a log-in specific to your email. Do not forward or show this email to anyone else.

The results will be made ready instantly to our Elections Committee, which will write up the results to be distributed to membership as soon as possible. When the Elections Committee publishes the results of the election on Simply Voting, the vote totals will be made available to all voters.

Per the Local bylaws, any UAW 4811 member in good standing is eligible to vote. To be a member in good standing, one must have signed a membership card, and must be an undergraduate student who is currently working as an ASE, a graduate student, or a dues-paying member. Adding an elector to the database requires a name and an email address. 

However, if you have unsubscribed or someone has unsubscribed you when you forwarded an email, you need to opt back in to Local’s communications to receive a ballot. You cannot be automatically resubscribed due to service agreements and federal and state anti-spam laws.

A member in good standing is a member who is up-to-date on their dues. Because our dues are automatically deducted by UC, this should include you if you have signed a membership card and have not revoked your membership.

For graduate students, you can be a member in good standing even if you are not currently working in-unit.

Fill out this form to resubscribe to union emails. If you are subscribed to union emails but did not receive a ballot, fill out this (https://go.uaw4811.org/vote) to request a ballot. The Elections Committee and Data Team will verify your membership and ensure that you are added to the list of ballot recipients. You may fill this form out before or during the election (if during the election, do so before 2pm PT on October 25th).

There are three bargaining units in UAW 4811:

• Academic Student Employee (ASE) : This includes all graduate and undergraduate student-workers, such as TAs, GSIs, Readers, Tutors, GSRs, Fellows, and Trainees. You may also vote in ASE elections if you are a member but are not currently working in-unit.

• Postdoctoral Scholars (PD): This includes all postdoctoral researchers and fellows, including paid-direct fellows.

Academic Researchers (AR): This includes Specialists and Junior Specialists, Project Scientists, Professional Researchers, and Coordinators of Public Programs.

The 11 campus units are: Davis, Berkeley, Berkeley Lab (LBL), San Francisco, Merced, Santa Cruz, Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, Riverside, Irvine, and San Diego. You are in a campus unit if you are employed at that campus and/or you perform your work at that campus. You may be a member of two campus units, e.g. if you have a split Berkeley/SF appointment or are an affiliate at Berkeley Lab but also work on Berkeley campus. If you do not receive the correct ballot, you will be able to request a new one with the proper campus unit(s).

You can view what division your department falls under here. If you think you should be in a different division, you can request to have that changed here. 

You can see an example ballot here.

The deadline to request a ballot is October 25th at 2:00pm, PT.

You must be a member of UAW 4811 (either a UC graduate student; a current undergrad who is working as a GSI/TA, reader, or tutor; or working in one of the represented titles) to vote. Sign up to become a member here!

Every member of the Elections Committee is to be given access to a member list, similar to the one they would have available during a physical vote. This allows them to double-check voter eligibility.

You can view Simply Voting’s security and reliability measures here.

Access is limited to members of our Elections Committee and members of the UAW 4811 Data Team. Administrators do not have any access to any election results during the election. Administrators can never see an individual elector’s choices unless the elector shares their receipt code with the administrator (see the verification section below). The administrative side of the elections interface contains a log of all administrative activity in the election, along with the corresponding IP address used.

After voting, Simply Voting will give you a voting receipt that contains the time of your vote, your IP address, and your voting choices. This receipt is only accessible by you. In addition, your vote comes with a code that can be matched to a ledger that shows you your voting choices. Your code is only made available to you. No one can match your identity to your voting choices with the ledger alone.

This is an example voting receipt (created using a test election).

This is an example voting ledger (created using a test election).

Yes. The administrative side of the election interface shows who is voting but does not reveal the vote count as the election is happening. After the election closes, the administrative side has access to the ledger of the votes but not the identity of individual votes.

Email the Elections Committee at elections@uaw4811.org.

The Elections Committee is not permitted to provide any advice on who to vote for and will only assist in the logistics of ensuring members’ access to vote.