“UC workforce churn: Why a quarter of lecturers don’t return each year” CalMatters (2021)

A crowd of UC Berkeley lecturers and their supporters march through the iconic Sather gate to campus in 2021. Many are wearing masks and holding picket signs reading "UC-AFT Faculty Demand Job Security".

Reporter Mikhail Zinshteyn’s deep dive into the problem of teaching faculty churn for Cal Matters marked a huge turning point in our 2019-2021 contract campaign. His article featured data analysis and personal profiles that elevated the issues we’d been raising at the bargaining table. Read it at Cal Matters