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United Auto Workers (UAW) 4811

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The Academic Student Employee Unit (BX) is a systemwide bargaining unit (except UCSF) comprised of graduate teaching assistants, readers, tutors and other instructional assistants who work in support of faculty and lecturers. Currently, the unit includes approximately 19,303* graduate students and is represented by the United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 4811.

An approximate breakdown of the number of BX represented graduate students at each location (except UCSF) is as follows:

LocationHeadcount
ANR0
Berkeley3,481
Davis2,274
Irvine1,678
Los Angeles2,467
Merced 599
Office of the President0
Riverside2,290
San Diego3,400
San Francisco0
Santa Barbara1,647
Santa Cruz1,472
Total19,303
*Systemwide Labor Relations census, October 2025