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Sep 3rd, 2015
The ranks of UC freshmen from other states and nations will rise substantially this fall at the Irvine, Davis and San Diego campuses, even as the controversially high numbers of...
Aug 31st, 2015
Several dozen students, workers and community members marched to various locations on campus and in the city Monday, delivering petitions calling for the insourcing of all...
Aug 24th, 2015
At the heart of America's recurring problems with poverty, income inequality and race lies a major shift in how our economy is structured. Since 2009, so called "temporary" jobs...
Aug 21st, 2015
Forging ahead with plans to take minimum wages to new highs, California’s San Francisco Bay Area has touched off tit-for-tat increases, deepening fears that the region’s high...
Aug 17th, 2015
Several years before the company Chartwells was selected to operate restaurants in the newly renovated Lower Sproul Plaza complex, it faced backlash from food service workers at...
Aug 15th, 2015
There is a difference between acknowledging that a problem exists and solving the problem. Case in point is the University of California’s decision last month to enact a minimum...
Aug 12th, 2015
Michael Del Rio has worked for nearly three years as a custodian at UC San Diego's Thornton Hospital, reporting to the same bosses, working with the same colleagues and cleaning...
Aug 9th, 2015
According to the University of California's largest employee union (UC) system, the first 3299 AFSCME local chapter of the latest study found that the school continued dependence...
Aug 7th, 2015
Oakland: The University of California’s continued reliance on private contractors is driving a growing number of UC workers—primarily immigrants and people of color—into...
