Ryan King

Across AFSCME 3299 wage scales, about 45% of service worker positions and about 5% of technical patient care worker positions at UC Berkeley earn less than $25 per hour, according to a Daily Californian analysis.

The California Public Employment Relations Board received an unfair labor practice charge Friday from UAW 2865, which alleges that the university has violated the Higher Education Employer-Employee Relations Act on at least 13 accounts.

On March 13, the UC Office of the President, or UCOP, announced the naming of Sharon Adesokan as its first Health Care Facilitator, or HCF. 

Fossil Free Research and Data for Progress released a report Wednesday on fossil fuel funding at prominent U.S. universities. Campus has received $155.9 million from big oil and fossil fuel companies between 2010 and 2020.  

Initiatives focused on expanding the UC’s transfer admission guarantee program in the 2023-2024 state budget are under discussion amongst California lawmakers. 

A new bill introduced Jan. 25 by Congressmen Ken Buck and Josh Hawley aims to expand restrictions, preventing TikTok from being downloaded on U.S. devices and penalizing transactions with TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance.

The December UC Board of Regents Health Services Committee meeting was disrupted within 5 minutes by UAW 2865 and SRU protesters.

As academic workers continue to strike for increased wages throughout the UC system, discussions have emerged over whether the demonstrations will impact workers’ payrolls.

The largest higher education strike in history of 48,000 academic workers across the UC system has entered its fourth week.

Striking academic workers from UC Berkeley, UCSF and UC Davis marched on the UC Office of the President, or UCOP, in Oakland Monday.