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After seven months of protests by campus employees and students, UC Berkeley finalized plans to insource 69 campus workers from three private contract companies last week.

After more than a year of demonstrations by campus subcontracted workers, UC Berkeley has decided to officially insource some of its subcontracted staff, primarily for campus community-oriented purposes.

The UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education released a report Tuesday highlighting the negative implications of a significant increase in contracted employees throughout California’s custodial and security workforces.

A UC labor union is calling for a speaker’s boycott at UC Berkeley for the duration of the spring semester, urging the campus to improve its treatment of subcontracted workers.

Several dozen students, workers and community members marched to various locations on campus and in the city Monday, delivering petitions calling for the insourcing of all subcontracted employees at UC Berkeley.

Several years before the company Chartwells was selected to operate restaurants in the newly renovated Lower Sproul, it faced backlash from food service workers at Northeastern University for an array of alleged mistreatment.

A parking company that contracts with the city took illegal action against one of its employees when it fired him in 2012, according to a decision this month by the California labor commissioner.

This month, City Council is set to look at proposed changes to the city’s living wage ordinance, after the plight of two workers brought to light possible loopholes in the law.

Back when she was working in Berkeley, Chauncy Taylor would sometimes sleep in her car to accommodate long, late hours that her job demanded. After she was laid off and moved to another city, she had to borrow $200 from her sister in Florida one month to help pay rent.