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UC President Michael Drake announced Monday that each UC campus will create a pandemic relief fund to minimize layoffs related to COVID-19.

This payroll report reveals UC Berkeley’s irresponsible priorities — athletics over fair pay, athletics over basic needs, athletics over all other programs.

International GSIs are not the only victims if they're not rehired: Nearly every undergraduate benefits from the hard work and individual attention of GSIs.

Michael Drake will need to ensure UC workers and students always come before considerations of power, wealth or prestige.

In order to be an effective UC president, Drake must commit to be on the side of students, workers, faculty and the people of the state of California.

We will continue to fight for a COLA because of what the health crisis has revealed about how system administrators commandeer public education in the name of saving it.

UC Santa Cruz GSIs who were fired after a continued wildcat strike for a cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, were offered reinstatement Monday.

As graduate students, we demand a cost of living adjustment, or COLA, to address rent burdens that have made life in a university town untenable. 

Graduate student workers from 16 UC Berkeley departments officially began their wildcat strike Monday, pledging to withhold grades and fully cease all work duties in support of a cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, from UC administration.

No, the UC system definitely does not pay its GSIs enough to meet the median cost of living, be that here or in Santa Cruz.