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Aug 16th, 2016
The chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, announced his resignation on Tuesday amid criticism over how he had handled sexual harassment cases involving...
Feb 10th, 2016
The chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, said Wednesday that the university had a “substantial and growing” deficit that could threaten its long-term...
Nov 20th, 2015
Year in and year out, public pension managers invest in hedge funds that promise market-beating returns. The stated aim is to narrow the gap between what the pensions have...
Sep 14th, 2015
In a decision that’s been called the greatest expansion of union rights in decades, the National Labor Relations Board has ruled that if a corporation uses contractors or...
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...
Jul 22nd, 2015
LOS ANGELES — The University of California system will raise the minimum wage for its employees and contract workers to $15 an hour, university officials announced on Wednesday,...
Apr 12th, 2015
A home health care worker in Durham, N.C.; a McDonald’s cashier in Chicago; a bank teller in New York; an adjunct professor in Maywood, Ill. They are all evidence of an...
Apr 4th, 2015
BOULDER, Colo. — ONCE upon a time in America, baby boomers paid for college with the money they made from their summer jobs. Then, over the course of the next few decades,...
Nov 19th, 2014
SAN FRANCISCO — Over the protests of hundreds of angry and chanting students, a panel of the University of California Board of Regents gave preliminary approval Wednesday to a...