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Michael Drake will need to ensure UC workers and students always come before considerations of power, wealth or prestige.
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Longtime city activist and UC Berkeley alumna Margy Wilkinson died Saturday at the age of 76.
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The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 3299 has filed six new complaints against the UC system.
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They voted to form an AFT council specific to the University of California, creating the University Council-AFT, which currently represents more than 3,300 librarians and non-Academic Senate faculty members such as lecturers, has staff on all 10 UC campuses and continues to enter into regular negotiations with the UC Office of the President, or UCOP, over salaries, job security, job roles and more.
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Faculty from UC campuses across the state pushed for greater job stability in negotiations between the University Council-American Federation of Teachers, or UC-AFT, and the UC Office of the President, or UCOP, at UC Berkeley on Wednesday.
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Members of the UC American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, or AFSCME, Local 3299 labor union gathered at the entrance of Sproul Plaza on Wednesday to strike in response to contract negotiations and UC’s alleged interference with workers’ rights.
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UC system workers will hold a strike April 10 after filing an unfair labor practice charge alleging that the UC system has taken unfair action against workers who have been involved in protesting and striking in the past.
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Where most comic book artists might draw with an ethos of specificity, Lester’s work in “1919” foregrounds rough black and white sketches, with watercolors that lend the images texture rather than detail.
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Senators also heard from the Office of the External Affairs Vice President’s campus organizing director, Sarah Abdeshahian, about supporting upcoming union strikes.
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According to John de los Angeles, AFSCME Local 3299 spokesperson, the university has been taking “directly employed jobs” from service and patient care workers by outsourcing them to independent contractors.
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