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Campus, Learning 2022

Wednesday, April 6, 2022

UC Berkeley lecturers face hardship without tenure

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Campus lecturers face difficulties balancing teaching obligations with research, which is considered in tenure decisions.

Although Fang Xu, a long-time lecturer and researcher in the Interdisciplinary Studies Field at UC Berkeley, possesses extensive academic achievements and credentials, she is unable to spearhead her own research projects.
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Wednesday, November 17, 2021
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Lecturers, university reach tentative contract agreement

After more than two years of bargaining, striking and organizing, a tentative agreement between UC-AFT, a union representing university lecturers, and the UC Office of the President, or UCOP, was reached early Wednesday morning. 
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Thursday, October 14, 2021
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‘More than just your teachers’: UC lecturers continue fight for updated contract

UC-AFT has called on UCOP to provide an updated contract to lecturers that will ensure job stability and improved compensation.
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UC

Tuesday, June 8, 2021
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UC-AFT lecturers vote to authorize strike for better pay

The University Council-American Federation of Teachers, or UC-AFT, voted to authorize a potential strike for increased job security and pay for UC lecturers June 2. 
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Tuesday, August 18, 2020
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UC lecturers call on UC President Michael Drake for job security

University Council-American Federation of Teachers, or UC-AFT, a union representing UC lecturers and librarians, hosted a caravan rally Monday to welcome UC President Michael Drake in hopes of pushing him to support UC lecturers in ongoing contract negotiations with the university.
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Sunday, May 24, 2020
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UC unions continue to negotiate contracts virtually during pandemic

As university services move online in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, UC labor bargaining has also moved to teleconference.
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Campus

Tuesday, October 22, 2019

Student’s Facebook post calls attention to lecturers’ working conditions

On Friday, campus junior Eliza Davis posted a Google form on Facebook to raise awareness for UC lecturers’ working conditions, as well as to garner student support. 
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Campus

Wednesday, May 1, 2019

UC Berkeley lecturers’ union rallies for job security, living wages

On Wednesday, about 100 people gathered on Upper Sproul Plaza for a University Council-American Federation of Teachers, or UC-AFT, rally to campaign for job security and a living wage.
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