A California employees’ union representing 25,000 low-wage campus and medical facility workers began its statewide, three-day strike on Monday after a year-long impasse in negotiations with the University of California came to a head last month.
Read moreThe California Public Employment Relations Board seeks an injunction against “essential employees” at five University of California hospitals who are threatening a three-day strike and two-day sympathy strike to support custodial workers, who rejected a 3 percent pay raise.
Read moreThe University of California, Berkeley, must face claims that it discriminated against conservative speakers like Ann Coulter, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
Read moreA federal judge granted summary judgment to the Regents of the University of California on a claim from a woman who says she was sexually assaulted while working on a fellowship in Alaska, as “UC did not have control over the assailant or program in Alaska.”
Read moreCalifornia community college students will be guaranteed admission to the University of California if they meet requirements under a new agreement announced Wednesday by the university and the California Community Colleges.
Read moreA federal judge on Wednesday said he will likely toss a lawsuit accusing the University of California of failing to investigate a former UC Berkeley student’s reports of sexual assault, putting an end to the three-year-old case.
Read moreProving that officials intentionally sought to suppress conservative speech at the University of California Berkeley last year won’t be easy, despite a vague policy that gives college administrators broad power to restrict speaking events, a federal judge said Friday.
Read moreDuring a four-hour marathon hearing Wednesday, a federal judge hinted he may block the Trump administration from ending parts of the program that shields nearly 800,000 young immigrants from deportation.
Read moreThe Regents of the University of California illegally spent public money to deter union organizing, the Teamsters Local 2010 claims in Alameda County Court.
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The University of California and a private strawberry breeding startup have settled a bitter dispute over UC Davis’ multimillion-dollar strawberry plants, after a jury found that the startup’s founders stole the plants to get an edge in the state’s mammoth strawberry market.
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A bill to criminally charge and fine state employees who willfully mislead the California auditor unanimously passed the state Senate on Thursday and now awaits Gov. Jerry Brown’s signature.
Read moreState auditors blasted University of California President Janet Napolitano’s office again on Thursday, with a finding that a university information technology project is years behind schedule and its costs have ballooned to nearly $1 billion.
Read moreThe University of California skirted contract guidelines and extended lucrative contracts without soliciting bids from new vendors, the state auditor said Tuesday.
Read moreAn Oakland, California, woman has dropped her $23 million lawsuit against the University of California and city of Berkeley over violent protests that led to the cancellation of a speech by conservative commentator Milo Yiannopoulos in February.
Read moreThree California lawmakers have proposed a bill that would make it a crime for anyone in a state agency to obstruct or tamper with an audit – a direct response to the state auditor’s revelation earlier this year that the University of California president’s office had done exactly that.
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The University of California and Berkeley police allowed violent, masked protesters to attack an Oakland woman with pepper spray for supporting conservative provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos’ planned speech at UC Berkeley earlier this year, the woman claims in federal court.
Read moreThe University of California regents have hired a law firm and tapped a former California Supreme Court justice to lead an investigation into a recent audit that found $175 million in surplus funds hidden by the UC president’s office.
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With billions of dollars at stake on the final day of a bench trial on equitable claims and a possible injunction, two retired UC Davis researchers tried to persuade a federal judge that California’s strawberry industry will benefit if they are allowed to compete with UC Davis by selling strawberry varieties they invented at the school.
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