California Public Employment Relations Board

United Auto Workers voted to authorize a strike consisting of postdoctoral scholars, academic researchers, academic student employees and graduate student researchers Wednesday.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced appointments to the state government Thursday and Friday, including four UC Berkeley alumni and faculty.

Unions representing employees from across the University of California face delays in the processing of contract disputes, as the state agency responsible for processing them confronts a large backlog of cases.

The California Public Employment Relations Board, or PERB, issued its second complaint this year against the university Feb. 12, alleging unfair labor practices.

This month, Berkeley City Council may consider putting stricter regulations on ride-sharing companies like Uber in light of concerns about customer safety and disability rights.

Nearly two weeks after a UC-wide strike, the UC student academic workers union has filed two unfair labor practice charges against the University of California with the state public employment relations board.

The union representing the university’s 13,000 patient care workers called a strike-authorization vote Tuesday, alleging that the university has been bargaining in bad-faith.

As the threat of a strike loomed on the horizon, the University of California and the union representing its patient-care and service workers entered their last scheduled day of bargaining Friday prior to a strike authorization vote planned for Tuesday.

Marching to the beat of cascading rain, nearly 400 peaceful strikers wound through Berkeley and the campus this morning, blaring music and chanting for justice.

The University of California’s largest union announced Friday that its members will participate in a 24-hour strike across the UC system on Nov. 20.