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Nov 1st, 2019
Even after a state audit two years ago smacked the University of California for not fully following its own policy for outsourcing jobs, the statewide university system has been...
Apr 2nd, 2018
After 23 years working at UC’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, first as a bus driver and now as a groundskeeper, Kathreen Bedford was dismayed to learn a white man hired...
Oct 23rd, 2017
(OAKLAND, CA) – A blockbuster report in today's San Jose Mercury News has revealed that the University of California is failing to enforce the minimum wage policy it released to...
Oct 22nd, 2017
In 2015, UC President Janet Napolitano announced with great fanfare that the University of California would become the first public university in the country to voluntarily set a...
Aug 22nd, 2017
The University of California doesn’t always follow its own rules for deciding when it’s OK to replace university employees with less-expensive contract workers, according to a...
Sep 14th, 2016
The University of California’s debt has ballooned to $17.2 billion since the start of the recession, more than doubling as the system borrowed to repair buildings, fund...
Dec 4th, 2015
BERKELEY -- Students protesting the pay and treatment of subcontracted custodians and parking attendants -- including some who work for a contractor under federal investigation --...
May 17th, 2015
The protests that recently engulfed Baltimore have sparked a much needed debate about the systemic problems that plague too many American...
Apr 9th, 2015
SACRAMENTO -- All the talk in recent weeks about how to fix the University of California's money woes and stave off a tuition hike has been between Gov. Jerry Brown and UC...
