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Nov 15th, 2016
In response to a layoff of 175 employees last month, former UCI Medical Center workers and union members from the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees...
May 31st, 2016
The State Assembly Subcommittee on Education voted last Tuesday to withhold $171 million in funding from the University of California until UC Regents rescinds their new series of...
Mar 8th, 2016
The University of California’s largest employee union released a study and follow-up report last Tuesday detailing the UC system’s loss of nearly a billion dollars in a series...
Dec 5th, 2015
About a dozen lecturers at the University of California Irvine staged a rally in support of the UC-AFT’s (University Council – American Federation of Teachers) efforts to...
Oct 20th, 2015
Governor Jerry Brown vetoed legislation on Oct. 9 that would have guaranteed UC full-time contract employees the same minimum wage that UC employees earn. Currently, full-time...
Janet Napolitano, President of the UC system, announced her so-called Fair Wage/Fair Work Plan July 22nd, enacting a $15 minimum wage for hired employees working at least 20 hours...
Sep 20th, 2015
Welcome, UC Irvine undergrads — or welcome back! — to your public education and, yes, to our jobs. We academic student-workers (“teaching assistants” and “tutors”)...
Apr 26th, 2015
When the members of UCI’s latino drama collective, Brown Bag Theatre Company set out to create a new project for the new school year, they looked to the strike and saw an...
Mar 30th, 2015
While the majority of UC students were taking their finals, the UC Board of Regents convened at UC San Francisco’s Mission Bay on Mar....
