Tuesday, May 19





UC comes to terms with AFSCME after nearly two years of negotiations

The University of California and its largest union finally reached the end of nearly two years of unusually long and difficult collective bargaining negotiations. The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees 3299 union reached an agreement with the UC Sunday on a contract for its about 13,000 patient care workers, averting a five-day strike that would have occurred at the UC’s hospitals. Read more...



Students feel UCPD used excessive force in response to Undie Run

University police broke up rowdy parties in the North Village after the quarterly Undie Run using pepper balls and other crowd control methods that some students thought were unnecessarily forceful. Read more...

Photo: Police patrolled the area around Landfair Avenue after students participated in the Undie Run early Thursday morning. (Courtesy of Andrew Tudor)