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Oct 20th, 2015
BERKELEY -- UC Berkeley students are demanding the campus keep a popular and outspoken math lecturer who claims he is being pushed out, in part, for being too good a...
Janet Napolitano, President of the UC system, announced her so-called Fair Wage/Fair Work Plan July 22nd, enacting a $15 minimum wage for hired employees working at least 20 hours...
To the editor: The excellence of a university comes down to the quality of its faculty, not the university president, the expertise of administrators, the capital fund or even the...
Oct 17th, 2015
Fifty years ago, the University of California basked in a golden moment: With the state booming, the system opened two new campuses in 1965, one on the old Irvine Ranch in the...
Oct 16th, 2015
On Sunday, Alexander Coward blew the whistle on the shadowy practices of hiring and firing lecturers at the University of...
In a recently published LA Times article, Performance First Building Services, a private company employed by UC Berkeley, has come under fire for exploiting subcontracted...
Oct 15th, 2015
Just before their previous contract expired in October, University of California and the UC postdoctoral union (UAW 5810) reached a one-year agreement that union members will...
Oct 14th, 2015
Gov. Jerry Brown preserved the tradition of 12-hour hospital shifts for health-care workers with the stoke of his...
Demonstrators congregated Wednesday afternoon at the intersection of Bancroft Way and Telegraph Avenue, objecting to UC Berkeley’s conduct toward contract...