UC students & workers protest fee hikes, layoffs
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BERKELEY, Calif.—During Nov. 18, 19 and 20, the University of California system shook with one of the biggest strikes and mobilizations since the 1960s. The UC has been using California’s budget cuts as an opportunity to break unions, fire labor activists, furlough professors, not re-hire lecturers, and increase student fees. The actions centered primarily on the UC Los Angeles and Berkeley campuses, but protests were also held at many of the other eight campuses.
Protests were organized to coincide with the UC Board of Regents’ meeting in Los Angeles, directed at the UC’s continued cutbacks and the threat of a 32% fee hike—bringing undergraduate fees to $10,302.
Previously, on Sept. 24, 5000 people marched in Berkeley and several hundred at each of the other UC campuses. A statewide mobilizing conference to defend public education located on the UC Berkeley campus followed on Oct. 24, which attracted about 750 people from all sectors of public (continued on page 5, in “Bissell workers fight for their jobs”)
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