https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/03/01/kxqj-m01.html
Low pay (and wage theft) in higher education means that research suffers (Nature)
This is big when it comes out in Nature. "Part of the pay discrepancy is that graduate students are classified as part-time workers who, on paper, do only 20 hours of work per week, with the rest of the time devoted to their studies. But for many... — read more
UC Student-Workers Strike
https://twitter.com/uaw2865/status/1593692790721982464?s=20&t=_9ZH6rOG4d2RJEcOiJgJOw
Strike looming for struggling part-timers
"After more than two years of stalled negotiations, 6,000 University of California lecturers are preparing to strike. The lecturers do one-third of all teaching but earn just a fraction of what their tenure-track counterparts do, with little in the... — read more
UC system aims to mitigate layoffs through pandemic relief funds
UC President Michael Drake announced Monday that each UC campus will create a pandemic relief fund to minimize layoffs related to COVID-19. The funds... — read more
Layoffs of Per Diem Employees Starting 7/1/2020
According to several sources of mine who work at UCSD Health, UCSD will be laying off health workers starting 7/1/2020. UCSD has not announced this and I cannot find any news related to this, but sources have also told me that nurses in the Emergency... — read more