Christopher Drozd
@microbe_manager
PhD Candidate @ UC Riverside. 🌿🍊🦠
I study how citrus tree microbiomes can be engineered to promote plant health! || he / him 🏳️🌈 || #blacklivesmatter
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23-04-2019 00:37:18
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Hundreds of @uaw2865 Student Researchers United-UAW UAW Local 5810 academic workers, faculty, and community members showed up in full force on Monday to kick off our second week striking at UC Riverside for a #FairUCNow!
.University of California told the LA Times their compensation proposal would make grad workers 'the highest paid among comparable public and private institutions.' We ran the numbers - That's a bold-faced lie. UC's proposals are uniquely low. University of California can do better.
Workers are peacefully occupying the lobby of the UC Path center in Riverside, but UC Riverside called the police! Why is this institution so afraid of the people who carry out its core mission?
Since our money cannot afford us housing we have taken over Hinderaker Hall UC Riverside & have even put up a 🎄(unfortunately the #UC grinches have taken all the happiness from it). Come by & camp with us in this very fancy building. #UAWonStrike #FairUCnow #SiSePuede
Standing with @uaw2865 Student Researchers United-UAW calling on the University of California to bargain in good faith and deliver a fair contract for the nearly 50,000 researchers, teaching assistants and instructors that are still on strike at UC.
UC Riverside CNAS Kathryn E. Uhrich told PIs to call👮♀️on strikers. We then picketed her building & the dept is now LYING. Saying strikers were “aggressive, confrontational & threatening staff.” How did we threaten you! (1/2) #UAWonStrike vimeo.com/778653944?fbcl… #AUWonstrike #FairUCnow
But where will the money come from? Says #UC, and silent & unsupportive PI’s. Given how much money UC takes from PI grants, u’d think PI’s would be more upset at UC for these raises & more supportive of us who do all the work on the grants.UC Riverside CNAS #FairUCNow
So University of California is doling out double-digit raises to administrators while campuses are announcing cuts to the academic workforce? Where are @UCPrezDrake's priorities?
Citrus Disease on PBS with Christopher Drozd youtu.be/tA63UN0t9KQ?si… UC Riverside CNAS