On December 6, University of California employees represented by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Local 3299 held statewide pickets at all five UC medical centers and 10 campuses to express their concerns with current working conditions and their effect on patient care and student services. At UC Santa Cruz, [...]
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On June 12th, teaching assistants and other members of UAW Local 2865 held a grade-in at the Baytree Plaza at UC Santa Cruz as part of a statewide action to highlight our demand for better protections against excessive workload. The action was successful and turned out over a thousand TAs, readers, and tutors across [...]
On May 17th, graduate students, who are also teaching assistants at UC Santa Cruz, held a rally and sick-in, along with other employees, to let the University of California know that we are sick of attacks on our health care. Hours after the demonstration at Kerr Hall, Lisa Sloan, Dean of Graduate Studies, announced [...]
Action at Burger King in Santa Cruz to Support the CIW
Posted in Globalization, Labor, Solidarity & Outreach on May 11th, 2007
The Student/Farmworker Alliance announced that May 11th and 12th would be Days of Action vs. Burger King calling on the world’s #2 burger chain to take responsibility for the conditions of farmworkers in the fields. On May 11th, four students from the University of California at Santa Cruz and one loyal Burger King [...]
Wanted! Ronald McDonald: Santa Cruz Solidarity with the CIW
Posted in Labor, Solidarity & Outreach on Oct 29th, 2006
‘the year that was’ in the struggle for fair food…
On October 29, 2006, allies of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers demonstrated in front of the McDonald’s on Mission Street / Highway 1 in Santa Cruz, California during coordinated days of actions and solidarity with the CIW. Activists played music, held signs calling on McDonald’s [...]
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