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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 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 7th, 2016
The University of California’s largest employees’ union released a report March 1 detailing what it calls an underperformance of the UC system’s “experiment” with hedge...
Feb 22nd, 2016
The California Public Employment Relations Board, or PERB, issued its second complaint this year against the university Feb. 12, alleging unfair labor...
Feb 12th, 2016
What’s all the fuss over pensions about? Why should you bother reading about retirement benefits, especially when the proposed changes don’t affect current faculty and staff,...
Hours after the administration’s announcement of comprehensive cost-cutting measures due to a growing budget deficit, more than 1,000 members of the campus community saw...
Feb 8th, 2016
A UC labor union is calling for a speaker’s boycott at UC Berkeley for the duration of the spring semester, urging the campus to improve its treatment of subcontracted...
Dec 4th, 2015
In a system composed of almost a quarter million students and on the verge of adding thousands more, it is easy to feel like just a number. That is why I spoke with concern last...
Nov 30th, 2015
On Monday, a universitywide group of black student organizations denounced the University of California’s investment in private corrections companies, calling for divestment and...
