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Sep 10th, 2015
When California Governor Pat Brown helped create the modern University of California system in the early 1960s, he envisioned many things: a world-class structure of higher...
Sep 9th, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Public and private sector workers are similarly satisfied with most of the 13 job aspects Gallup asks them about, but government employees are more likely to...
The UC system has sold off its endowment and pension fund holdings in coal and oil sands companies, a $200-million move that officials said Wednesday was in response to both...
Union membership has its perks: higher wages, better healthcare, more job...
Sep 7th, 2015
Unionized labor represents an ever-smaller share of the American workforce, having fallen to 11.1% in 2014, down from 20.1% in 1983, according the U.S. Labor Department. But as...
Sep 6th, 2015
UCSB’s purchase of the Tropicana Gardens Apartment Complexes for $156 million resulted in an immediate loss to the County of Santa Barbara of over $1.1 million in property taxes...
Sep 4th, 2015
A study released on Friday, noting the gains made by black union workers in New York City, said that raising the rate of unionization among black workers across the country would...
The University of California Regents endowment yielded a return of 7.2 percent for the fiscal year ending June 30, according to data released by the Chief Investment Officer of...
Sep 3rd, 2015
In the 51-year rise of UC San Diego to super-elite status among the nation’s research universities, probably nothing has been as significant an embarrassment as its loss over...
