WHO WE ARE
Founded in 2004, UAW Local 4123 represents over 10,000 Academic Student Employees (ASEs) — Teaching Associates (TA or GTA), Graduate Assistants (GA) and Instructional Student Assistants (ISA Tutors/Graders/SI Leaders) — across the 23 campuses of the California State University system.
We are state bargaining Unit 11. A strong, vocal union membership equals success in negotiating wages, benefits, workload protections, and fair hiring processes. As unionized employees, we gain the ability to bargain with CSU on these and other issues, allowing us to have a real say in our lives as student employees. You can strengthen our voice by getting involved!
LEADERSHIP
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President - Lark Winner (she/her), CSU San Bernardino ISA
Vice President 1 - Alex Martin (they/them), Sonoma State TA
Vice President 4 - Gillian Duane (they/them), Long Beach State GA
Financial Secretary - Aubrey Beller (she/they), Long Beach State ISA
Recording Secretary - Eric Phipps (he/they), Cal State LA ISA
Sergeant-at-Arms - Michelle Jones (she/they), Sonoma State TA/ISA
Trustee - Maci Tolleson (she/they), San Francisco State ISA
Trustee - Ellen Kuang (she/her), San Diego State TA
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Head Stewards:
Chico State - Sonia S. Quintero
Cal Poly Humboldt - Abby Keltz
Cal State Los Angeles - Matthew Lowry
Cal State Northridge - Rafael (Rafa) Estrada
San Diego State - Danielle Davis
AFFILIATES
UAW Local 4123 is a part of UAW Region 6 which encompasses over 120,000 workers across the western United States including Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawai’i, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah and Washington. UAW Local 4123 members are also a part of UAW International which is comprised of more than 600 local unions across the US, Canada, and Puerto Rico.
SiBLING ASE Unions
UAW Local 4811 at University of California
UAW Local 4121 at University of Washington
Local 4591: Academic Student Employees at Washington State University
WAWU-UAW: Educational Student Employees and Operational Student Employees at Western Washington University
Working Wildcats: Student Workers at Central Washington University
CGPU-UAW: Grad Student Researchers & Postdocs at Caltech
Local 872: Graduate Student Workers at University of Southern California
AGWA-UAW: Graduate Student Workers at University of Alaska
UOSW: Student Workers at University of Oregon