In our own homes: How we can support domestic workers

They serve as house cleaners, nannies and health aides. Their work is undervalued and lacks formal protections. Their jobs are the least secure and the hardest.
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They serve as house cleaners, nannies and health aides. Their work is undervalued and lacks formal protections. Their jobs are the least secure and the hardest.
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Although AFSCME’s recent tentative agreement with the university gives only service workers a contract, it is a step in the right direction.
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The library director at the Institute of Transportation Studies Library discusses the consequences of an unfair contract for librarians, lecturers and students.
About 60 to 70 people gathered outside of Doe Library on Wednesday to show their support for UC librarians, who are being represented by the University Council-AFT, or UC-AFT, in their contract negotiations with the UC Office of the President, or UCOP.
At an event Tuesday in Downtown Berkeley, former State Assemblymember and current state senate candidate Nancy Skinner gave a speech advocating for the rights and benefits of postdoctoral scholars.
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When former football head coach Jeff Tedford was fired on Nov. 21 of last year, the common understanding was that Tedford would be paid a maximum of $6.9 million in accordance with the stipulations of the original contract. On Feb. 4, Cal Athletics reported that the maximum of the buyout
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