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After more than two years of working without a contract, the University Technical and Professional Employees-Communications Workers of America 9119 union and the UC system reached a tentative five-year contract agreement Tuesday, which, if approved, could affect more than 13,000 UC employees.
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As a member of the University Climate Change Coalition, or UC3 — a coalition of North American research universities designed to help combat climate change — the UC system announced its involvement with a platform aimed at accelerating climate change policy research on July 23.
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The Daily Californian’s impact issue on UC labor strives to feature the university workforce and its importance to campus communities.
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They voted to form an AFT council specific to the University of California, creating the University Council-AFT, which currently represents more than 3,300 librarians and non-Academic Senate faculty members such as lecturers, has staff on all 10 UC campuses and continues to enter into regular negotiations with the UC Office of the President, or UCOP, over salaries, job security, job roles and more.
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UC Berkeley received five best practice awards for its sustainability programs during the the California Higher Education Sustainability Conference, an annual event held with the purpose of highlighting research, case studies, operational programs and community partnerships.
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About 100 people from Academic Researchers United/the United Automobile Workers Local 5810, the union for Postdoctoral Research Fellows, gathered outside California Hall at about noon on Wednesday while in negotiations with the University for the first time.
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A court case against the UC system over health benefits for retirees of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is expected to be heard by the Alameda County Superior Court almost a decade after it was first filed, according to Carl Whitaker, a public relations consultant for the retirees.
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The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office granted the University of California a new patent for the revolutionary CRISPR-Cas9 system of gene-editing technology on Tuesday. The patent, No. 10,301,651, covers methods of modulating DNA transcription.
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The last time campus offered an energy saving program, it saw a 3 percent reduction in electricity use as a result of people choosing conservation options.
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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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