Claire Doan

The UC Board of Regents approved an increase to undergraduate nonresident supplemental tuition during its last day of meetings at the UCSF Robertson Auditorium.

Unions representing more than 35,000 workers are going on a systemwide strike May 16 to protest alleged violations of worker rights by the UC.

The UC system's largest employee union — American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, or AFSCME, Local 3299 — filed three separate Unfair Labor Practice charges in late April alleging that the UC is taking part in negotiations to replace its employees with low-wage workers contracted by outsourcing companies.

The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 3299 has called for speakers to boycott their UC speaking engagements amid labor disputes.

Members of the UC American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, or AFSCME, Local 3299 labor union gathered at the entrance of Sproul Plaza on Wednesday to strike in response to contract negotiations and UC’s alleged interference with workers’ rights.

The University of California launched its new, single payroll system UCPath at UC Berkeley on Sunday.

UC system workers will hold a strike April 10 after filing an unfair labor practice charge alleging that the UC system has taken unfair action against workers who have been involved in protesting and striking in the past.

More than 100 UC employees marched on Upper Sproul Plaza on Wednesday to demand increased wages and pension security from the UC system.

Members of the UC Student-Workers Union, or UAW Local 2865, protested Thursday in Riverside outside the UCPath office in response to the new UCPath payroll system, which is being implemented throughout the UC system to facilitate the payment of UC employee salaries.

In a report released Feb. 12, California State Auditor Elaine Howle said that although the UC Office of the President, or UCOP, has made strides in implementing financial transparency reforms, its current state still allows the UCOP to maintain “virtually an unlimited amount” of money.