UCLA labor- and immigration-justice groups held a town hall meeting Monday night to urge UCLA to create more insourced positions for contract valet workers at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. Speakers at “Emergency Town-Hall: UCLA to Fire Immigrant Workers,” held by the Student Labor Advocacy Project of UCLA and UCLA Sanctuary Campus Committee, called […]
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Students shocked by Orange County fire, worried about their families
The regional park that Mark Nguyen and his family would hike in Tustin, California, is now burnt and covered in ash. “It’s unfortunate it’s so close to home — it’s definitely more surreal than usual,” he said. “You hear about wildfires all the time but it usually does not affect you as much.” A fire […]
GSA external vice president chooses to keep association in UCSA
The UCLA Graduate Student Association announced last week it will remain part of the University of California Student Association even though graduate student associations at other campuses voted to leave UCSA last month. The UC Graduate-Professional Coalition, which consists of graduate student representatives from the 10 UC campuses, voted to leave UCSA because several graduate […]
Valet workers transferred from UCLA fear insourcing, loss of benefits
Edwin Cifuentes, a contracted valet worker at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, said many valet workers who are being transferred away from UCLA are worried their new jobs will not offer them the same wages or benefits UCLA provided. “They have family with medical problems. Being at UCLA, they have health insurance,” he said. […]
California strengthens law against audit interference after UCOP dispute
Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill into law Monday that would fine individuals who knowingly interfere with state audits. Assembly Bill 562, which takes effect Jan. 1, adds on to current law and states that anyone who obstructs a California state audit with intent to deceive or defraud will be fined up to $5,000. Under […]
Legal experts urge DACA recipients to renew status by Thursday deadline
Legal experts urge undocumented students to visit campus resources as the deadline to renew their Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals status approaches. Last month, President Donald Trump ended DACA, a program that deferred deportation for undocumented individuals brought to the United States as children. The program, which former President Barack Obama enacted in 2012, has […]
Former podcast network employee sues UC regent for coercion, retaliation
A former employee of a podcast network is suing a University of California regent for brandishing weapons to compel him to falsify advertising data. In September, Raymond Hernandez, a former employee of podcast network PodcastOne, filed a lawsuit at the Los Angeles Superior Court against UC Regent Norman Pattiz and other defendants. Pattiz is the […]