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Dec 10th, 2015
Twenty-two student protesters were arrested on December 3 after staging a two-hour occupation of the central administration offices at the University of California,...
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...
Oct 9th, 2015
When it comes to evaluating policy, sometimes it’s just better to have the facts. Case in point is Adam Summers recent column (Opinion, Oct. 4) attacking legislation that I...
Oakland: “While we are obviously disappointed in the Governor’s decision, we know that today marks only the beginning of our efforts to address the exploitation of low wage...
Oct 6th, 2015
Manipulation and deception are words more often associated with politics than institutions of higher...
Sep 30th, 2015
When it raised its minimum wage to $15, the University of California signaled that it valued its workers. Senate Bill 376, however, is testing just how dedicated the University...
As the Assembly convened hearings on how best to prevent the University of California from sticking its students with another tuition hike, several students spoke about the...
Sep 20th, 2015
Among the stack of bills sitting on Governor Jerry Brown’s desk is one pitting labor unions against the University of California. Introduced by Senator Richard Lara, SB 376...
Sep 10th, 2015
When California Governor Pat Brown helped create the modern University of California system in the early 1960s, he envisioned many things: a world-class structure of higher...
