In August, the Trump Administration suspended over $584 million of federal research grants to UCLA and issued a series of demands to the UC Board of Regents that UCLA would be required to meet in order for the grant-funding to be restored. UCLA was the first public university to receive such a demand from the […]
Our efforts to fight back against the Trump administration’s attack on the UC made the Sunday edition of the New York Times! While UC administrators are attempting to negotiate with the White House behind closed doors, UC-AFT joined with our fellow UC unions and Faculty Associations, which together represent over 100,000 UC workers, to defend our […]
Open Letter to Chancellor Lyons, from the Bay Area Chapter of UC-AFT View this as a PDF To: Rich Lyons, Chancellor of University of California, Berkeley From: the UC-AFT, Union of Lecturers and Librarians at UC Berkeley Friday, September 19, 2025 Chancellor Lyons, A member of our union, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences […]
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Lawsuit Challenges Administration’s Intimidation and Targeting of Higher Education San Francisco, CA – A broad coalition of faculty, staff, students, and labor unions today filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, seeking to stop the Trump-Vance administration’s attempt to unlawfully stifle free speech within the University […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: The coalition of UC unions condemns Trump’s attacks on the University of California The Coalition of UC Unions -– representing tens of thousands of UC workers, including health care workers, tenure-track faculty, service workers, instructors, and academic researchers -– has released a statement condemning the Trump administration’s unprecedented actions against the University […]
As UCI proposes drastic 9% cuts to its School of Humanities, UC-AFT teaching faculty and graduate student workers from UAW 4811 rallied in protest. Speaking to the New University, Chris Varela, a full-time composition lecturer who has taught at UCI for a decade, explained how bureaucratic and painful the experience can be. Despite passing his […]
Our VP of Legislation, Trevor Griffey, has published a new piece about the devastating budget cuts being imposed on our campuses, which we have republished with his permission below. For academic year appointments, reappointment letters should be received by June 1 (quarter campuses) or May 1 (semesters). If you have received a layoff notice or […]
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In this piece from the Santa Cruz Lookout, Hillary Ojeda describes a recently released report by two Faculty Committees — the Committee on Teaching and the Committee on Educational Policy — based on the results of their survey of their fellow faculty members about UCSC’s ongoing budget cuts. Citing an $81 million deficit, campus administrators have been […]
Following Gov. Newsom’s announcement about his revised budget, UC-AFT and our parent union CFT issued the following statement: “Today’s proposal lowered the 8% cuts to the UC the governor first proposed in January to 3% but, unfortunately, the University of California management has already made cuts in line with the January proposal. While we appreciate […]
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Student journalists at the Preuss School (UCSD) issued this report on their teachers’ ongoing fight for a fair contract, including a student walkout. As the reporter describes, the walkout demonstrated, “student solidarity with their teachers and their support for a raise in teachers wages,” which are 20% less than teachers in the San Diego Unified […]
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