UC-AFT and UC Contract Expires
UC Santa Cruz lecturers held a strike at the base of campus in 2003 for a fair contract and increased job security through continuing appointments. Their demands were seen as radical and progressive at the time, but lecturers succeeded in obtaining a contract that set…
Johanna Toruño Event Cancelled at UCSC Women’s Center
Undocumented artist and activist Johanna Toruño was scheduled to speak at the kickoff event of the UC Santa Cruz Women’s Center’s Sister Solidarity series on Jan. 23. But a day before the event, the Women’s Center cancelled it due to administrative mismanagement stemming from a…
Graduate Students Escalate COLA Fight
Natalya Jackson is a sixth-year graduate student in the math department. She’s scheduled to graduate in the spring, and has a job lined up when she does. But recently, Jackson received a student conduct violation notice for theft of intellectual properties and forgeries for allegedly…
Another Win for AFSCME Local 3299
The Patient Care Technical (EX) Unit reached a tentative agreement with the UC late on Jan. 27 after about three years of bargaining and six strikes under an expired contract. About 19,000 UC patient care employees represented by the American Federation of State, County and…
Chancellor Announces Disciplinary Action Toward Graduate Students
In an email to students on Jan. 27, Chancellor Cynthia Larive announced disciplinary action toward graduate students who do not submit fall 2019 grades by Feb. 2. Graduate students who do not submit grades will receive a written disciplinary warning in accordance with the UC/United…
Engineering Professor Dimitris Achlioptas Resigns
*A pseudonym is used to protect the source’s identity. Dimitris Achlioptas resigned from his position as UC Santa Cruz computer science and engineering professor in December 2019. Achlioptas’ resignation came in the wake of two investigations into Faculty Code of Conduct (FCC) and Title IX…
UCSC Misses 2020 Zero Waste Goal
UC Santa Cruz diverted half of its solid waste from landfills last year, missing by 40 points a UC-wide goal mandating that each campus reuse, recycle or compost 90 percent of its solid waste by 2020. No UC campus achieved this goal — and in…
Programmers’ Paradise
Friday evening witnessed a legion of 450 coders, hackers, programmers, engineers and techies amass into an unkempt column marching through Stevenson College. Equipped with paper bowls filled with pizza in one hand and laptops in the other, teams of experienced and novice tech lovers from…
New Contract for K7 Unit
After two years of working, bargaining and most recently striking under an expired contract, members from the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Local 3299 Skilled Crafts Unit (K7) and the UC Santa Cruz administration reached a new contract on Jan. 21….
Victory for AFSCME Local 3299
Service workers in the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Local 3299 reached a tentative contract agreement with the UC late on Jan. 21 after almost three years without a contract. The new contract includes wage increases, secure benefits, mechanisms to limit…