In response UC President Michael V. Drake’s March 19 announcement of a UC-wide hiring freeze, UC-AFT President Katie Rodger issued the following statement:
“UC-AFT Local 1474 joins the community of University of California faculty, staff, and students alarmed by President Drake’s March 19, 2025 message about impending cuts and a systemwide hiring freeze. We call upon the Office of the President, the UC Regents, and all campus administrators to refuse to capitulate to threats, and to protect the quality of UC education as their top priority.
A budget crisis cannot be solved through layoffs of librarians and non-reappointments of teaching faculty who together serve our students, patients, and communities and make our university run for us all. Raising class sizes, eliminating library services, or cutting student programs will only hurt the people who rely on us, now more than ever. Sacrificing the quality of UC education while administrative bloat is left unaddressed would be a failure of leadership.”
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