Author Archives: Heather Rabkin

Food service employees at UCLA ““ each making an average of roughly $17,000 a year ““ and other service workers may go on strike because the university continues to bargain in bad faith, union leaders said Friday. Labor organizers and strategists said strikes are always a last resort for unions during contract negotiations but said […]

The beginning of the Chinese New Year 4703 marks a time for celebration, visiting friends and family, and the start of the year of the rooster. There are 12 animals in the Chinese lunar calendar: the rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep, monkey, rooster, dog and boar, in that specific order. According to […]

A report released Tuesday by the National Economic Development and Law Center found that the wages for most UC service workers are not enough to cover the basic costs of living in California. The NEDLC is a national research organization that provides help to low-income areas and promotes a higher quality of living within various […]

Executives of the five University of California medical centers received bonuses last October, while full-time worker positions are expected to be dropped in the face of the hospital’s negative income. Bonuses totalling nearly $2.4 million were given to 65 health care executives at the medical centers, and UCLA spent nearly $343,000 on bonuses for 13 […]

Last November, Luz Herrera was sitting at a computer filling out college applications, but she wasn’t filling them out for herself. Herrera, a fourth-year Portuguese and international development studies student, was sitting next to Simone, a senior at Inglewood High School. “We worked together on a computer, step by step, on a Saturday to complete […]

One of the biggest student advocacy group’s efforts to stop the rise of textbook prices have culminated in the second edition of Ripoff 101, a report published a year ago that finds how the “publishing industry’s practices needlessly drive up textbook costs.” This report was released simultaneously on Tuesday at a multitude of California Public […]

After seven months of unfruitful contract negotiations between the University of California and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, the union has asked for help. AFSCME, which represents 7,300 UC service workers, “declared impasse and are requesting a state mediator to help them reach a fair contract,” according to an AFSCME press […]