Yudof’s Salary Plan: What does it Really Mean?

In August, President Yudof announced a plan for merit increases for non-represented staff making less than $200,000 and for faculty who hav...

UC Announces New Pension Rates

At the next UC Regents meeting, the Office of the President will ask the Regents to endorse new pension contribution rates. According to th...

UC-AFT Goes to Wall Street: OCCUPY and Demand

I am going to the Occupy Wall Street protests this weekend, and I hope to circulate a list of demands that a wide variety of groups and indi...

From Obama to Vanity Fair: Telling the Wrong Story

A recent Vanity Fair article , “ California and Bust,” by Michael Lewis attempts to blame the difficult financial status of many states and ...

OccupyLA Update

On October 2, 2011, John Bruning the UC-AFT Field Representative for UCLA, filed the following report: I went to the OccupyLA march to City ...