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“UC Librarians Fight for Academic Freedom, Pay Equity,” Academe Magazine (2018)

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Librarians and their allies rally on the steps of the Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley in 2018. Many are wearing blue union t-shirts and holding signs, including "Student Worker Power" and "UCOP wants to end Librarian Academic Freedom - Who's Next". A ray of sunlight splashes through the top right corner.

In this 2018 article for Academe Magazine, Hank Reichman profiled UC-AFT librarians’ fight for Academic Freedom, arguing that “the erosion of academic freedom is a danger to our educational system.” By the end of the contract campaign, librarians had pushed the UC to adopt a new policy protecting not only our members academic freedom rights, but those of workers in all sixty other non-faculty academic job classifications in the UC system. Read more