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Feb 14th, 2017
As you may have heard, among Donald Trump's atrocious, government-despising cabinet nominees is Carl's Jr./Hardee's CEO Andrew Puzder, a man reportedly opposed to hikes in the...
Feb 13th, 2017
OAKLAND (BCN)— Business at an Oakland Carl's Jr. restaurant was disrupted for nearly an hour as dozens of protesters held a rally inside to denounce President Donald Trump's...
Jan 6th, 2017
The leaders of the University of California system — unsatisfied with funding provided by Gov. Jerry Brown and the state Legislature and interested in ambitious new initiatives...
Jan 2nd, 2017
Early skirmishes have begun already on tentative proposals to increase tuition at California’s two massive public university systems for the first time in six...
Dec 30th, 2016
The last year has been invigorating for part of the labor movement as the “Fight for $15” campaign progressed rapidly from pie in the sky to, in some places at least, reality,...
Dec 27th, 2016
In San Francisco, companies will pay six-figure salaries to entry-level tech workers from all over the world. So this might come as a surprise: A public university there is laying...
Dec 16th, 2016
BERKELEY (CBS SF) – Administrative workers at the University of California will go on strike at all 10 UC campuses, five medical centers and the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab...
Dec 12th, 2016
The union has come to dwell in higher education. As graduate employees face increasing precarity, rising workloads, and low job prospects, the opportunity to join the union...
Dec 11th, 2016
It appears that Andy Puzder, President-elect Donald Trump's choice to head the Department of Labor (DOL), doesn't believe in workers, let alone workers'...
