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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 20,409* 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
Berkeley3,518
Davis2,364
Irvine1,688
Los Angeles2,791
Merced 525
Office of the President0
Riverside2,403
San Diego3,844
San Francisco19
Santa Barbara1,689
Santa Cruz1,570
UCOP0
Total20,411
*Systemwide Labor Relations census, April 2025