March 4th Statewide Day of Action

A broad coalition of students, faculty, and staff from K-12, the community colleges, CSU's and UC are uniting in a statewide day of action on March 4th to protest chronic underfunding of education in California, and to demand restoration of access, affordability and quality for all.  UC-AFT and our state affiliate, CFT, have endorsed the actions on March 4th.  We encourage all of our members to take this opportunity to raise awareness about the impacts of the budget cuts on our ability to deliver the highest quality of instruction and service in the classroom and libraries.

UC-AFT has adopted the following four broad points as the core of our March 4th message:

1.  We must have transparency in the UC budget 

2.  UC must rehire non-senate faculty and restore courses in order to maintain the intregrity of UC's academic mission

3.  UC must restore library budgets and extend services 

4.  UC must revoke President Yudof's emergency powers, and reinvigorate shared governance, including full enfranchisement of lecturers in departmental governance.

March 4th Statewide List of Events

Click the name of the city below to get information about March 4th events taking place there.  If you have information about events not listed here, please send it to bquirk@ucaft.org and we will post it.  

Berkeley/San Fransisco    Davis    Irvine    Long Beach    Los Angeles    Riverside    Sacramento    San Diego  

San Fernando Valley    Santa Barbara    Santa Cruz

Maintain the University of California's Vision

Submitted by administrator on Wed, 03/03/2010 - 10:34
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Here's an excellent editorial from the March 1 New University.  This was written by UCI lecturer, Brook Haley, who will also be speaking at the UCI rally on March 4th.  

Guidance on March 4 Activities for UC-AFT NSF and Librarians

Submitted by administrator on Mon, 03/01/2010 - 15:11
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The UC-AFT encourages our members and supporters and the UC workers whom werepresent to support the March 4 Day of Action. However, you do need to beaware that there are some restrictions on what you can and cannot do tosupport March 4 activities.

Under Unit 18 and 17 MOUs (contracts), Lecturers and Librarians are notallowed to “withhold their labor” in support of the strike and day of action. You maynot simply refuse to show up at work unless you honestly feel that crossing

UCLA Fights Back Coalition Demands for March 4th

Submitted by administrator on Wed, 02/24/2010 - 14:52
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(1) Lower Fees, Rescind Program Cuts, and Stop the Privatization of UCLA!

- Reverse the 32% fee hike.

- Reduce class sizes.

- Stop the push to move classes online.

- End the Humanities restructuring project.

-Do not increase out-of-state enrollments

 

 (2) End Racist and Anti-Immigrant Policies and Practices at UCLA!

- Change the university admissions policy to increase Black, Latina/o, Native American, and Underrepresented Asian student enrollment.

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