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Mar 18th, 2016
BERKELEY -- UC Berkeley, in what one of its unions hailed as a "historic victory for contract workers," has agreed to offer direct employment to all regular night shift and...
After nearly seven months of campaigning, 69 previously subcontracted workers have officially been insourced as UC employees, ending an ongoing campus speakers’...
Mar 16th, 2016
At its Tuesday meeting, Berkeley City Council adopted a resolution to support UC Berkeley’s subcontracted workers and endorse AFSCME Local 3299’s speakers’ boycott on...
Mar 15th, 2016
On the broadcast today we had Melissa Cropper, President of the Ohio Federation of Teachers, and she talked about State Report Cards and the International Summit on the Teaching...
Mar 14th, 2016
UC Chief Investment Officer Jagdeep Singh Bachher recently announced that the university will attempt to decrease its costs by further reducing its number of hedge fund managers,...
Mar 11th, 2016
Writer and activist Monbiot warns, “When someone says they have no politics, it means that their politics align with the status quo.” The Berkeley Forum released a statement...
Mar 10th, 2016
The University of California’s endowment, which manages $2 billion in hedge fund investments, plans to pull money from the worst-performing managers and redirect assets to top...
Mar 9th, 2016
The UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education released a report Tuesday highlighting the negative implications of a significant increase in contracted employees...
Mar 8th, 2016
Even after the tripling of in-state tuition, substantial cuts to student services, employee pension reform, the infusion of Proposition 30 funds and a multiyear budget agreement...
