Though a Tuesday deal for University of California academic researchers and postdoctoral scholars marks progress on the bargaining front, undergraduates and professors alike still feel the weight of the largest academic worker action in history as UC Santa Cruz heads into final exam season.
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Fears rise that UC strike could have long-lasting consequences on vaunted research, teaching
The strike of 48,000 University of California workers could have long-lasting consequences to the system’s teaching and research excellence, some fear.
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Cabrillo College historian on how the school got its name and why some are opposed to changing it
Local historian and longtime Cabrillo College instructor Sandy Lydon started working at the college 10 years after it was founded. He saw the college establish its reputation, and tells Lookout what the name Cabrillo means to him. Lydon wouldn’t name the college after Cabrillo today if he had the chance, but now that the school has voted to change its name, he hopes people won’t forget all it has accomplished.
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UC academic workers strike heads toward Week 3 with minor bargaining updates
Almost 50,000 researchers, teaching assistants and graders across 10 campuses, including UC Santa Cruz, finished their second week of striking with minor updates to negotiations for a new contract with the University of California system.
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Lookout Update: As UC systemwide strike heads into its fourth day, negotiations fall quiet
Dialogue has been scant between University of California negotiators and striking union groups during statewide demonstrations that have been billed as the largest in the history of academic labor.
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UC says strikers’ demand to tie pay to housing costs could have ‘overwhelming’ cost impacts
Tying workers’ pay to their housing costs could have “overwhelming financial impacts” for the University of California, a system provost warned amid a strike that stretched into its third day across the UC’s 10 campuses.
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‘Now that we know better, we do better’: Cabrillo College will no longer be named after Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo
Following a recommendation from a Cabrillo College board subcommittee last week to change the name, the board of trustees voted Monday evening to change the school’s name. The college launched a name exploration project in July 2020.
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Scholars, students, and community working together for transformation at UCSC’s All-In Conference
More than 400 university scholars, students, community organizers, foundation representatives, artists, and activists came together in late October for a one-of-a-kind event to build collaborative partnerships for community-engaged research and meaningful social change at the UC Santa Cruz conference: All-in: Co-creating Knowledge for Justice. The event was co-presented by UCSC’s Institute for Social Transformation (IST) […]
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UC Santa Cruz academic workers hit picket lines as systemwide strike begins
Citing what they call unfair labor practices by the University of California system throughout the bargaining process that have slowed their proposals for better pay and job security, some 48,000 unionized academic employees throughout the UC system — including around 2,000 at UC Santa Cruz — hit the picket lines Monday morning.