National Labor Relations Board

Ten employees left Berkeley REI between Jan 29 and Feb 4, of which nine were terminated and one resigned. 

The largest higher education strike in history of 48,000 academic workers across the UC system has entered its fourth week.

Berkeley REI employees approved a bid to unionize with United Food and Commercial Workers Local 5, or UFCW5, in a vote Thursday.

Sen. Bernie Sanders, D-Vt., introduced the Respect Graduate Student Workers Act to the Senate on Jan. 22, which would protect graduate student workers’ right to unionize.

14,000 university student research assistants do not have the same right to collective bargaining as other student employees, including teaching assistants, readers and tutors.

Contract negotiations between the California Professional Employees Union and one of their employers — Berkeley nonprofit Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency, or BOSS — remained unresolved after the union refused to sign the new fiscal year contract during an unsuccessful mediation Sept. 27.

The National Labor Relations Board, or NLRB, filed an official complaint June 30 against WeWork — a $16 billion startup with an office in Berkeley that provides communal working spaces — regarding the legality of an arbitration agreement waiving employees’ right to file lawsuits against employers.

Bob King, president of the United Automobile Workers labor union – one of the largest in the nation with more than 390,000 active members – made two appearances on campus Monday to speak about the importance of organizing, collective bargaining and global solidarity for unions.