UCLA and the union for campus skilled trades workers ratified a new five-year contract, university officials announced Thursday afternoon. The 600 skilled trades workers will receive a 12.5-percent wage increase and 3-percent annual increases starting July 1. Read more...

Photo: Teamsters Local 2010, which represents UCLA skilled trades workers, had organized protests and strikes this past year calling for higher wages. UCLA and Teamsters agreed on a contract, which workers ratified on Monday. (Laura Uzes/Daily Bruin)

A civil rights leader and current congressman will come to UCLA on Monday to receive the UCLA Medal and deliver a lecture. Rep. John Lewis, a Democrat from Georgia, will deliver the 5th Annual Winston C. Read more...

Photo: Rep. John Lewis will receive the UCLA Medal Monday and deliver the Winston C. Doby lecture at Royce Hall. (Public Domain photo via LBJ Library)

Mark Sawyer spoke Spanish with a Cuban accent, despite growing up in the United States. While leading study abroad programs in San Juan, Puerto Rico, locals would call him “El Cubano.” Sawyer, a political science and African American studies professor known for his work on race relations in Cuba, died March 26 in Los Angeles. Read more...

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