Thursday, June 19

UC employees rally for $25 minimum wage outside Board of Regents meeting

Dozens of UC employees gathered outside a UC Board of Regents meeting at Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center to call for higher wages. The rally, put on by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 3299 – which represents more than 30,000 UC service workers and skilled craft workers – called for minimum wages of $25 per hour, said Frank Valdez, the strategic communications director for AFSCME Local 3299. Read more...

Photo: American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 3299 union members protest outside Wednesday’s UC Board of Regents meeting. They called for a $25 an hour minimum wage for University employees. (Shengfeng Chien/Daily Bruin staff)


UC sexual violence survivors face inadequate support, survey finds

This post was updated March 27 at 12:21 a.m. A UC student research collective found that survivors of sexual violence are dissatisfied with resources across all 10 campuses. Read more...

Photo: Murphy Hall, which houses the UCLA Title IX Office, is pictured. A study from a collective formed through UC Survivors and Allies found that the UC system lacks proper resources and outreach for sexual violence survivors. (Daily Bruin file photo)


Student Researchers United merges with United Auto Workers Local 2865

Student Researchers United and United Auto Workers Local 2865, unions representing graduate student researchers and academic student employees, respectively, merged to become known solely as UAW Local 2865, it announced Monday. Read more...

Photo: Pictured is a United Auto Workers union strike. Student Researchers United and UAW Local 2865 announced via Twitter on Monday that they would merge to be known only as UAW Local 2865, representing a combined 36,000 graduate student employees at the UC. (Christine Kao/Daily Bruin staff)


UCLA community leads protest against cuts to graduate student admissions

This post was updated Feb. 22 at 11:10 pm Around 100 UCLA community members gathered Wednesday afternoon at Murphy Hall to protest reports of administration-backed cuts to graduate student admissions in light of recently won wage increases. Read more...

Photo: UCLA community members gathered outside Murphy Hall to protest reports of administration-backed plans to reduce graduate student admissions following wage increases won in fall quarter’s United Auto Workers strike. (Constanza Montemayor/Daily Bruin senior staff)



Outreach is limited for newly mandated on-site medication abortion services

A recently implemented bill mandated that all University of California and California State University schools provide on-site medication abortion services by Jan. 1, 2023. However, most students are unaware of these services or how to access them, UCLA community members said. Read more...

Photo: The Title IX Office is located in Murphy Hall, pictured. Senate Bill 24 requires University of California and California State University campuses to offer medication abortion on-site, but there have been delays in implementation and outreach of services. (Daily Bruin file photo)


A month after new contract, UAW members’ concerns about bargaining process persist

Rank-and-file members of several United Auto Workers unions expressed dissatisfaction with issues of marginalization, bullying and suppression they said they experienced during internal negotiations to ratify a new contract with the University of California. Read more...

Photo: United Auto Worker union members walk a picket line. Many academic workers expressed dissatisfaction with union’s internal handling of the bargaining process with the University of California. (Myka Fromm/Daily Bruin)



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