May Day rally draws support for worker and immigrant rights
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About 150 workers and students gathered on Sproul Plaza Wednesday afternoon to rally in support of workers’ and immigrants’ rights.
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UC SHIP Advisory Board postpones coverage cap decision
The UC SHIP Advisory Board met Monday to weigh options on the controversial health care coverage cap issue Read More…
Now is the time to make change
Veto is a setback for graduate student research assistants
Last week, Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed legislation that would have given the University of California’s more than 14,000 graduate student research assistants the same rights that other UC employees have under the Higher Education Employer-Employee Relations Act. These rights include the freedom to form a union if a majority of Read More…
We can’t stop and we won’t stop
Attention students, faculty, staff and workers! As you very well know, the state of our university system is undergoing unprecedented changes. With fee and tuition increases continuing and more to come, with diversity ever more rapidly being diminished and with low-income and middle class families suffering more because they can’t Read More…
Veteran protesters seek to rejuvenate movement
Protesters prepared for a protest at Mission Bay planned for the Regents meeting Thursday. The group set up a half dozen tents on Koret Quad that served as overnight shelter as well as a symbol of last year’s university occupations. Read More…
Walkout draws moderate crowd of protesters to Upper Sproul, Wheeler Hall
About 200 UC Berkeley students, faculty members and clerical workers gathered on Upper Sproul Plaza around noon to protest recent tuition increases and the management of UC funds.
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Campus groups, workers’ unions plan rally
A rally is planned on campus Thursday in opposition to potential tuition hikes at the University of California and in support of workers’ rights across the UC system.
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Birgeneau condemns new legislation limiting out-of-state enrollment
Chancellor Robert Birgeneau has requested that a proposed piece of state legislation that could cap out-of-state student enrollment at UC campuses be withdrawn from consideration by the state Senate. Birgeneau asked that Sen. Michael Rubio, D-Shafter, withdraw his proposed constitutional amendment — which would establish a 10 percent cap on out-of-state enrollment Read More…
State Senate approves bill that would extend collective bargaining rights to research assistants
The California State Senate approved a bill last Thursday that, if signed by Gov. Jerry Brown, would grant collective bargaining rights to graduate student research assistants at the state’s public universities. The bill would extend an 1979 act that gave university employees the right to collectively bargain to apply to Read More…
Union members present rebuttal to challenge of recent election
More than 100 members of a union representing academic student employees throughout the UC packed into a statewide membership meeting Saturday afternoon, overturning a challenge to the recently concluded leadership elections, unseating a recently elected member and discussing the future direction and structure of the union. Approximately 130 members of Read More…