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
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
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
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
UC Student-Workers Strike
https://twitter.com/uaw2865/status/1593692790721982464?s=20&t=_9ZH6rOG4d2RJEcOiJgJOw
UC academic workers report major cuts to departments in the aftermath of six-week strike
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/03/01/kxqj-m01.html