UC

Many have expressed support for UC academic workers in their ongoing strike, including local organizations, workers and government officials.

The University of California may dock pay from those participating in the ongoing academic worker strike—including faculty striking in solidarity—according to Berkeley Faculty Association Chair James Vernon. 

The UC Board of Regents reconvened Thursday to further discuss  university issues such as the ongoing academic workers’ strike, UCLA’s possible transition to the Big 10 and general community safety plans.

The UC Regents assembled at UCSF Mission Bay on Wednesday to discuss the ongoing UAW strike, civic engagement and SVSH training compliance rates.

Unionized academic workers have been out on strike across the UC system since Monday to protest unfair labor practices and continue to bargain with the university each day of the strike.

After two days of protests, UC Berkeley graduate and undergraduate students continue to strike in protest of unfair labor practices as of Wednesday, moving between picket lines around campus.

Madhavi Dandu, a professor at the University of California, San Francisco, was named the director of the UC Global Health Institute, or UCGHI. 

John “Jack” McInerney, an applicant for an office assistant job in Oct. 2021 at UCLA, filed a lawsuit against the University of California Regents for wrongful termination by denying him employment based on his conviction history. 

United Auto Workers voted to authorize a strike consisting of postdoctoral scholars, academic researchers, academic student employees and graduate student researchers Wednesday.

A campaign is pushing the UC system to allow the hiring of undocumented students following an October ruling that prohibits new undocumented immigrants from applying to the DACA program.