UC-AFT Local 1474
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The union for University of California lecturers and librarians.
https://ucaft.org
Lecturer bargaining is this Thursday, April 9 on Zoom. RSVP if you’re a lecturer or ally who wants to observe.
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#WeTeachUC
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UC-AFT lecturers continue the fight for a fair contract! Show your solidarity with U18 colleagues by observing Zoom or in-person bargaining sessions.
#WeTeachUC
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Coming up in two weeks, the UC-AFT Unit 18 table team will be bargaining in person at UC Davis. If you’re local and want to show your solidarity with lecturers in securing a fair contract, RSVP to participate at
bit.ly/4v8W2HZ
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Amy is a lecturer at UC San Diego. Check out her hopes for a new contract below.✊
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7 days ago
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UC-AFT Bay Area Chapter
8 days ago
Reminder to all
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Berkeley lecturers: Deadline for professional development fund applications is less than 2 weeks away. Be sure to submit by 5pm on April 10. Details at:
ucaft.org/wp-content/u...
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Jennifer is a lecturer at UC Riverside. Read her hopes for a new contract below.✊
#WeTeachUC
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9 days ago
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Check out the Unit 18 lecturer bargaining update from our session on March 19. Next bargaining date: April 9 on Zoom.✊
weteachuc.org/2026/03/27/b...
11 days ago
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AAUP
11 days ago
The Trump administration is working with billionaires and ICE to take over and transform higher education. Join us at
#NoKings
tomorrow to rise up against authoritarianism and its federal abuses and to affirm that this nation belongs to its people, not to kings. No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings.
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Amy is a lecturer at UC Irvine. Check out her hopes for a new contract below.✊
#WeTeachUC
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11 days ago
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Erika is a lecturer at UC Davis. Read her hopes for a new contract below.✊
#WeTeachUC
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13 days ago
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Joseph Klett is a lecturer at UC Berkeley and serves on the UC-AFT Unit 18 contract bargaining table team. Read Joseph’s hopes for a new contract below.✊
#WeTeachUC
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15 days ago
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Nolan Higdon is a lecturer at UC Santa Cruz and serves on the UC-AFT Unit 18 contract bargaining table team. Read Nolan’s hopes for a new contract below.✊
#WeTeachUC
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Cam Clark is a field work supervisor at UC Berkeley Law and serves on the UC-AFT Unit 18 contract bargaining table team. Read Cam’s hopes for a new contract below.✊
#WeTeachUC
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19 days ago
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Katie Arosteguy is a lecturer at UC Davis and serves on the UC-AFT Unit 18 contract bargaining table team. Read Katie’s hopes for a new contract below.✊
#WeTeachUC
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21 days ago
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Lecturer contract bargaining coming up this week! Thursday, March 19 at UCLA.
#WeTeachUC
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23 days ago
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Tommy Tran is a lecturer at UC Merced and serves on the UC-AFT Unit 18 contract bargaining table team. Read Tommy’s hopes for a new contract below.✊
#WeTeachUC
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23 days ago
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UC-AFT Local 1474
UC-AFT Bay Area Chapter
28 days ago
Hey UC-AFT lecturers at Berkeley: Apply now to the Professional Development Fund to support your teaching, research, and scholarship! Proposal deadline is April 10, 5pm. Find all the info at
tr.ee/PwRioIf4nR
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UC-AFT lecturer contract negotiations have begun. We won open bargaining, so let’s pack the sessions in solidarity with Unit 18 teaching faculty! Here are upcoming bargaining dates in March and April.
weteachuc.org
#WeTeachUC
30 days ago
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Trevor Griffey
about 1 month ago
Modeling budget democracy for higher education:
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critiques
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for cutting funds for instruction while accumulating hundreds of millions in reserves. Cosponsored by
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and
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Pause the Cuts, Restore Shared Governance: A Zoom Town Hall on the UC Irvine Budget (02/13/2026)
YouTube video by UCAFT
https://youtu.be/T-8MA3VnWQA?si=iKbmvCn_swsk5Qq9
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UC-AFT Bay Area Chapter
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“Lecturers have been left in limbo as the termination threatens to be one of the largest lecturer layoffs in campus history.” 👎
www.dailycal.org/news/campus/...
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UC Berkeley to terminate freshman enrollment program, threatening mass lecturer layoffs
The Fall Program for First Semester, a program that has supported thousands of freshmen over its 43-year history at UC Berkeley, is set to shut down.
https://www.dailycal.org/news/campus/uc-berkeley-to-terminate-freshman-enrollment-program-threatening-mass-lecturer-layoffs/article_c30602de-6e13-49f2-8c32-d726144f8308.html
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UC-AFT Local 1474
Timothy Vollmer
about 1 month ago
Faculty + unionized workers are the real leaders of the University of California, repelling funding cuts and attacks on research and teaching. The UC President and highly-paid administrators sit on the sidelines with harebrained dreams they can negotiate with Trump.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
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Harvard is fighting Trump. UC president says he wants to try ‘a better course’
UC President James B. Milliken defended the university's decision to not sue the Trump administration over funding cuts and said it was the university's responsibility to engage.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-03-02/uc-president-james-milliken-interview
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Emily Drabinski
about 1 month ago
As proud as I’ve ever been to be a member of the
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American Library Association employees forming union with AFSCME
Joining the wave of union organizing among cultural workers, employees of the primarily Chicago-based American Library Association (ALA) announced they are forming their union with AFSCME Council 31.T...
https://afscme31.org/news/american-library-association-employees-forming-union-afscme
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Let the sun shine in: Non-senate faculty, librarians rally at UCD
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Let the sun shine in: Non-senate faculty, librarians rally at UCD
During a chilly lunchtime hour on Feb. 19, UC-AFT members erected cardboard pillars against those of front side of Mrak Hall each with handwritten messages such as “real campus safety,”
https://www.davisenterprise.com/news/let-the-sun-shine-in-non-senate-faculty-librarians-rally-at-ucd/article_2e8157f9-3732-4c32-8c03-f6337a6aeace.html
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UCSB lecturers hold UC-AFT union contract kickoff
dailynexus.com/2026-02-26/u...
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“The union will be prioritizing permanent job status, higher pay and better protections for academic freedom and free speech rights — all issues that would make lecturers know that their work is valued the same as that of other UC instructors.”✊
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UC lecturers are bargaining for a new contract. Who are they and what are they asking for?
Lecturers across the University of California system will begin bargaining March 5 for a new contract as they push for permanent job status, higher pay and stronger academic freedom protections, argui...
https://lookout.co/uc-lecturers-are-bargaining-for-a-new-contract-who-are-they-and-what-are-they-asking-for/story
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“When we say, ‘we run UC’, it’s really the people that make this University possible,” Luce said in the interview. “As long as we stay resolute and stand together, we can protect this place and defend the value of public higher education.”
dailybruin.com/2026/02/24/u...
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UC and UC-AFT negotiations tentatively set to begin in March - Daily Bruin
This post was updated Feb. 24 at 11:37 p.m. UC lecturers are tentatively set to begin negotiations with the University in March. The unit of the University Council-American Federation of Teachers repr...
https://dailybruin.com/2026/02/24/uc-and-uc-aft-negotiations-tentatively-set-to-begin-in-march
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UC-AFT Local 1474
UC-AFT Bay Area Chapter
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UC-AFT lecturers began negotiations with a rally and bake sale Feb. 19. A new contract would govern the more than 7,000 teaching faculty throughout the UC system.
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UC-AFT begins prebargaining with rally and bake sale
The University Council - American Federation of Teachers began its contract negotiations with the UC system with a small rally and bake sale Feb. 19. A new contract would govern
https://www.dailycal.org/news/uc/uc-aft-begins-prebargaining-with-rally-and-bake-sale/article_c72fa973-2c91-430b-ba09-06203693780f.html
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UC-AFT Local 1474
UC-AFT Bay Area Chapter
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“What we see here is disparate treatment,” said UC-AFT Grievance Steward Ian Davis. “Here’s a policy and it’s been applied to one person despite the universe of politically-informed discussions and debates on campus.”
www.dailycal.org/news/campus/...
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Deliberations around Kao suspension drag on, leaving some faculty reeling
Some campus faculty remain concerned about freedom of speech and academic protections as deliberations regarding Peyrin Kao’s suspension continue.
https://www.dailycal.org/news/campus/deliberations-around-kao-suspension-drag-on-leaving-some-faculty-reeling/article_7c39745e-e885-4dac-9136-0a74d80794ec.html
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UC-AFT Local 1474
UC-AFT Bay Area Chapter
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Solidarity with
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lecturers as they kick off contract bargaining today at Berkeley!✊
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RSVP:
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Lecturers contract bargaining starts February 19th! Berkeley Unit 18: Show your support all day at Bauer Wurster Hall. Everyone: Join us for a solidarity bake sale at California Hall from 10:30am-2:00pm!
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@karodger.bsky.social
#WeTeachUC
about 2 months ago
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Jaweed Kaleem
about 2 months ago
NEW: The Trump administration has dropped its appeal of a federal court order blocking its $1.2-billion settlement demand to UCLA over alleged campus civil rights violations:
www.latimes.com/california/s...
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Trump administration drops its appeal of court order blocking $1.2-billion UCLA settlement
The Trump administration dropped its appeal of a major higher education case in which a federal judge blocked its $1.2-billion settlement proposal to UCLA over alleged civil rights violations. But it ...
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-02-13/trump-drops-appeal-of-court-order-blocking-uc-ucla-settlement
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UC-AFT Bay Area Chapter
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UC-AFT lecturers are kicking off contract bargaining on February 19. At Berkeley, Unit 18 lecturers can show their support at Bauer Wurster Hall throughout the day, and everyone can stop by California Hall for a solidarity bake sale 10:30a-2:00p! ✊🥧
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AAUP
2 months ago
AAUP President Todd Wolfson issued the following statement in response to Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt's Executive Order issued today immediately eliminating academic tenure at the state’s public regional universities and community colleges.
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AAUP President on the Elimination of Tenure at Oklahoma Regional Universities and Community Colleges.
WASHINGTON—AAUP President Todd Wolfson issued the following statement in response to the Governor of Oklahoma’s signing of Executive Order 2026-07, which immediately eliminates the conferral of academ...
https://www.aaup.org/news/aaup-president-elimination-tenure-oklahoma-regional-universities-and-community-colleges
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We asked Unit 18 lecturers, “What are your hopes for the new contract?” Here’s the response of Erika S. from the UCD Writing Center.
2 months ago
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We asked Unit 18 lecturers, “What are your hopes for the new contract?” Here’s the response of Jennifer R. from UCR’s Comparative Literature & Languages Department.
2 months ago
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We asked Unit 18 lecturers, “What are your hopes for the new contract?” Here’s the response of Amy K. from the UCSD Latin American Studies Program.
2 months ago
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Sunshining is a legally mandated meeting that takes place before the start of collective bargaining negotiations. Reps from UC-AFT and UC management put forward proposals for the new contract. The public is allowed to comment on the contract and larger issues at stake.
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Unit 18 lecturers, it’s time for sunshine! Get ready for a statewide day of action on February 19 as we begin bargaining for a new contract!
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UC-AFT Local 1474
Toby Higbie
2 months ago
“For every human being that has been hunted based on their skin color, their form of labor, their language and their existence, we claim belonging to the land that we call the U.S.” Kudos to the organizers who pulled off yesterday's UCLA rally and march, a demonstration of students' potential power
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Over 1,000 demonstrators join on-campus walkout to protest ICE crackdowns - Daily Bruin
This post was updated Jan. 28 at 6:53 p.m. More than 1,000 people marched across campus Wednesday afternoon to protest the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign.
https://dailybruin.com/2026/01/28/over-1000-demonstrators-join-on-campus-walkout-to-protest-ice-crackdowns
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UC-AFT Bay Area Chapter
2 months ago
Solidarity with UCB students standing against ICE terror in Minneapolis and everywhere.
www.dailycal.org/news/campus/...
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UC Berkeley students rally against ICE
About 300 UC Berkeley students and community members rallied yesterday against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, on the steps of Sproul Hall.
https://www.dailycal.org/news/campus/uc-berkeley-students-rally-against-ice/article_abd825e1-ab7f-453a-822d-bcb02fa74284.html
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AAUP
2 months ago
“The judges said that the Trump administration cannot freeze federal funding based on unsubstantiated claims of antisemitism. That’s just not allowed.” —Todd Wolfson, AAUP President The AAUP is standing up for our students, faculty & communities in the courts, on our campuses and in the streets.
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5 higher ed lawsuits to watch in 2026
The Trump administration is at the center of major unfolding litigation, from efforts to cap overhead research funding to attacks on Harvard University.
https://www.highereddive.com/news/5-higher-ed-lawsuits-watch-2026-trump-harvard-indirect-costs-marco-rubio-dei/810546/
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AAUP
2 months ago
"Judge Young ordered on Thursday that any future attempts to deport members of the two academic organizations that had sued could be immediately challenged in court, where the Trump admin would need to prove that it was not retaliating against the members over their speech or academic work."
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D.H.S. Cited Foreign Students’ Writings and Protests Before Their Arrests
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/us/politics/trump-rubio-student-speech.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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UC-AFT Local 1474
California Federation of Labor Unions
2 months ago
The California Labor Movement stands in solidarity with our brothers and sisters in Minnesota as they protest ICE’s actions and declare Friday a day of no work, school or shopping. (1/3)
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UC-AFT’s statewide Council voted unanimously on a resolution in solidarity with Minnesota workers striking on January 23, 2026.
ucaft.org/news/resolut...
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3 months ago
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UC-AFT Bay Area Chapter
3 months ago
“When your coworkers aren’t safe, nobody is safe … [but] workers are in a strong position to take action. This country is run by workers.”
inthesetimes.com/article/minn...
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“We Are Facing a Tsunami of Hate”: Amid ICE Crackdown, Unions and Community Groups Call for Minnesota Shutdown in 10 Days
Following the ICE murder of Renee Good and an assault on the state by federal immigration forces, a labor-community coalition is calling for residents to refuse to work, shop or go to school on Januar...
https://inthesetimes.com/article/minneapolis-renee-good-ice-shooting-labor-unions
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UC-AFT Local 1474
CFT | A Union of Educators and Classified Professionals
3 months ago
CFT President Jeff Freitas on the murder of an innocent bystander by an ICE agent earlier today in Minneapolis. In November of 2025, CFT called on ICE to be abolished. Read CFT's resolution here:
www.cft.org/resolution/abolish-ice-and-end-militarization-our-communities
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AAUP
3 months ago
“This is not just a failure of one chancellor, it is a systemic failure of leadership at the highest levels — including President Jeffrey Gold & the Board of Regents — who endorsed these decisions, ignored faculty governance, & approved this payout.” — Alexander Vazansky, UNL AAUP
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UNL AAUP condemns $1.1 million payout to Chancellor Rodney Bennett
According to the separation agreement approved by the Board of Regents, Chancellor Bennett will receive a lump-sum payment exceeding $1.1 million, in addition to continued salary and benefits through ...
https://www.klkntv.com/unl-aaup-condemns-1-1-million-payout-to-chancellor-rodney-bennett/
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