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The wildcat COLA strike happened because UC got the UAW bargaining teams to roll over on things rank'n'file union members needed. It could happen again. 32 years after the passage of ADA, UC doesn't even meet that minimum legal standard of accessibility. But workers don't have to settle for the minimum...we can ask for more. And that's what the original Access Needs articles did.

The union hasn't been great about proactively communicating the Access Needs articles so we're going to do it. This is what the Student Researchers United (SRU) Access Needs articles started out as.

Default captioning. Default online accessibility options. Finally making buildings accessible! The flexibility in work that both temporarily (e.g. broken wrist, illness, pregnancy complications) and permanently disabled workers need. No more #CripTax for being disabled! Disabled workers no longer have to fight UC's Disability Cop bureaucracy alone.

What did UC respond with? Getting rid of the phrase "access needs" and RE-centering abled people again by using the phrase "reasonable accommodations", a phrase used in the ADA, which is a 32-year old law UC still flouts.

Who determines what's "reasonable"? Abled people who choose to use public funds (disabled people are PART of the public) to build infrastructure & processes hostile & harmful to disabled people.

ADA does not require a bureaucracy to ration accessibility and police disabled people. UC admin CHOSE to put those barriers up. And wants to push the Access Needs articles into rubber stamping that existing and expensive cop system.

That disability cop system is a waste of taxpayer money, a waste of our healthcare system's time, and is purely to punish disabled people for being disabled. Persecuting disabled workers does not increase productivity nor save public money (not that it would be permissible to harm and exclude disabled people to save a few bucks, either).

If you're in the UAW, let your union leaders know that the original Access Needs articles are important to you. Let them know we're already out on strike, we've already got statements of solidarity from faculty, undergrads, and fellow unions. Now is not the time to roll over on demands, especially when they're trying to pit abled workers against disabled workers.


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