Student Labor Committee

More than 100 UC Berkeley clerical, administrative and support staff employees staged a one-day walkout and formed picket lines Tuesday to protest the University of California’s contract negotiation practices and to stand in solidarity with UCLA skilled trades workers, who were also striking.

Around 80 protesters gathered on Sproul Plaza on Thursday afternoon to demand that charges be dropped against a student who was arrested during a campus protest in March and another student who alleges she has been charged by the campus.

About 30 students, workers and Berkeley community members gathered at the Wiley W. Manuel Courthouse on Tuesday to show support for John Penilla, who appeared in court after he was arrested during a campus protest in March.

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.

After nearly seven months of campaigning, 69 previously subcontracted workers have officially been insourced as UC employees, ending an ongoing campus speakers’ boycott.

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.

Hours after the administration’s announcement of comprehensive cost-cutting measures due to a growing budget deficit, more than 1,000 members of the campus community saw Alphabet Inc. executive chair Eric Schmidt discuss his experiences in academia and industry and the importance of research universities with Chancellor Nicholas Dirks on Wednesday evening.

At the opening of the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive’s new location Sunday, seven members of the campus Student Labor Committee stood amid the newly revealed painting and sculptures wearing large signs that bore testimonies of alleged mistreatment of campus contract workers.

About 50 students and workers protested in front of the Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union building and California Hall on Wednesday, alleging unfair treatment and unsafe working conditions in UC jobs.

What was initially an action scheduled as part of the UC Student Association’s annual Students of Color Conference escalated into a march to Chancellor Nicholas Dirks’ home.