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UC Berkeley’s Black student leaders and organizers have long advocated for increased recruitment, academic support and a more welcoming campus climate for Black students, but recent national unrest has reinvigorated the campus Black Lives Matter movement’s calls for change.
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On April 30, the Berkeley Cost-of-Living Adjustment General Assembly voted to end its grading strike, about a month after it began.
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UC Santa Cruz GSIs who were fired after a continued wildcat strike for a cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, were offered reinstatement Monday.
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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.
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Cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, advocates and graduate students hosted a “COLA party” on Sproul Plaza on March 3, ending in a meeting between student organizers and UC Berkeley administration.
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United Auto Workers, or UAW, Local 2865 — the union that represents UC graduate student instructors, teaching assistants, readers and tutors — filed unfair labor practice charges against the UC system Feb. 27 and March 2, after weeks of system-wide protests in support of a cost of living adjustment.
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The fight for a UC Green New Deal is not isolated — we should view it as part of the broader struggle against climate change happening worldwide.
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SB 698, which won bipartisan support on May 23, would eliminate the University of California’s exemption from strict wage laws and make it illegal for UC workers to be paid late if it is passed, according to a press release from the UC Student-Workers Union.
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Agreements reached include a 3 percent annual wage increase, a one-time payment of $100 for every eligible employee, an increased childcare subsidy, a partial campus fee waiver and the establishment of a joint labor-management committee on sexual harassment issues and training.
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A former UC Berkeley law student filed a federal complaint Friday, suing the UC Board of Regents to get her degree.
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