Despite winning increased job security in our 2021 contract campaign, lecturers at UC Merced are still fighting to prevent layoffs...
“We’re eating into our savings.’ A budget crunch at UC Merced hits campus lecturers” KVPR (2024)
Media coverage
“Teachers at elite UCLA Lab School strike, saying model campus culture is changing,” Los Angeles Times (2023)
When teachers at the UCLA Lab School went on strike in 2023, their students showed strong support. As 9-year-old Ayla...
“Op-Ed: UC churns through a quarter of its lecturers a year. Why I was forced to move on,” Los Angeles Times (2021)
Written at the height of our 2019-2021 contract fight, UCI Lecturer Diane Mendoza Nevárez described the plight of lecturers in...
“Pressure mounts on UC as lecturer workforce strikes and class cancellations loom,” CalMatters (2021)
The UC workforce has a churn problem as about a quarter of the system’s 6,000 lecturers don’t return annually. The...
“UCI Lecturers Face Job Insecurity, UC-AFT Pickets To Raise Awareness” New University (2021)
In this 2021 article, Table Team member Kat Lewin laid out the stakes of the Unit 18 contract campaign: “I...
“UC workforce churn: Why a quarter of lecturers don’t return each year” CalMatters (2021)
Reporter Mikhail Zinshteyn’s deep dive into the problem of teaching faculty churn for Cal Matters marked a huge turning point...
“UC Librarians Fight for Academic Freedom, Pay Equity,” Academe Magazine (2018)
In this 2018 article for Academe Magazine, Hank Reichman profiled UC-AFT librarians’ fight for Academic Freedom, arguing that “the erosion...
“Checking Out: Support the Librarians in their Demand for Better Labor Conditions” UCSD Guardian (2018)
In his 2018 Opinion essay for the UCSD Guardian about UC Librarian’s Contract campaign, Christopher Robertson wrote, “Few will leave...
“Day of Protest: Large-scale walkouts were few during National Adjunct Walkout Day….” Inside Higher Ed (2015)
Coverage of the National Adjunct Walkout Day in 2015 included an action at UCSC, where UC-AFT members marched across campus...
“Final agreement reached between librarians’ union and UC,” Daily Aggie (2011)
Describing what was at stake in UC-AFT’s librarians contract negotations in 2011, Pres. Mike Rotkin said, “We have estimated that...
