UC-AFT Bay Area Chapter
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We represent 1,200 Lecturers and Librarians at UC Berkeley, UCSF, and UC College of the Law, San Francisco. https://linktr.ee/ucaftbayarea
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Join us tonight at 7pmET for a mass call to get ICE out of schools. The webinar is led by the AAUP, the AFT, the Sunrise Movement, and others. You’ll leave with tools to map your university’s ties, link up with allies & run a campaign that forces decision-makers to drop ICE’s billionaire partners.
February 15, 2026 at 7:01 PM
Join us tonight at 7pmET for a mass call to get ICE out of schools. The webinar is led by the AAUP, the AFT, the Sunrise Movement, and others. You’ll leave with tools to map your university’s ties, link up with allies & run a campaign that forces decision-makers to drop ICE’s billionaire partners.
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Lecturers contract bargaining starts February 19th!
Berkeley Unit 18: Show your support all day at Bauer Wurster Hall.
Everyone: Join us for a solidarity bake sale at California Hall from 10:30am-2:00pm! @ucaftbayarea.bsky.social @karodger.bsky.social #WeTeachUC
Berkeley Unit 18: Show your support all day at Bauer Wurster Hall.
Everyone: Join us for a solidarity bake sale at California Hall from 10:30am-2:00pm! @ucaftbayarea.bsky.social @karodger.bsky.social #WeTeachUC
February 15, 2026 at 6:42 PM
Lecturers contract bargaining starts February 19th!
Berkeley Unit 18: Show your support all day at Bauer Wurster Hall.
Everyone: Join us for a solidarity bake sale at California Hall from 10:30am-2:00pm! @ucaftbayarea.bsky.social @karodger.bsky.social #WeTeachUC
Berkeley Unit 18: Show your support all day at Bauer Wurster Hall.
Everyone: Join us for a solidarity bake sale at California Hall from 10:30am-2:00pm! @ucaftbayarea.bsky.social @karodger.bsky.social #WeTeachUC
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NEW: The Trump administration has dropped its appeal of a federal court order blocking its $1.2-billion settlement demand to UCLA over alleged campus civil rights violations: www.latimes.com/california/s...
Trump administration drops its appeal of court order blocking $1.2-billion UCLA settlement
The Trump administration dropped its appeal of a major higher education case in which a federal judge blocked its $1.2-billion settlement proposal to UCLA over alleged civil rights violations. But it ...
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February 14, 2026 at 1:41 AM
NEW: The Trump administration has dropped its appeal of a federal court order blocking its $1.2-billion settlement demand to UCLA over alleged campus civil rights violations: www.latimes.com/california/s...
Students expressed that they felt there were “troubling patterns that have severely degraded the quality and integrity of our program” and announced that a collective tuition strike would “begin immediately.” www.dailycal.org/news/campus/... @ucaft.bsky.social
UC Berkeley School of Social Welfare students begin tuition strike over staff layoffs
Graduate student organizers in the UC Berkeley School of Social Welfarebegan a tuition strike Jan. 19 in response to “grave concerns” about recent layoffs of two union-protected lecturers in the
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February 13, 2026 at 4:14 PM
Students expressed that they felt there were “troubling patterns that have severely degraded the quality and integrity of our program” and announced that a collective tuition strike would “begin immediately.” www.dailycal.org/news/campus/... @ucaft.bsky.social
UC-AFT lecturers are kicking off contract bargaining on February 19. At Berkeley, Unit 18 lecturers can show their support at Bauer Wurster Hall throughout the day, and everyone can stop by California Hall for a solidarity bake sale 10:30a-2:00p! ✊🥧 @ucaft.bsky.social
February 11, 2026 at 5:19 PM
UC-AFT lecturers are kicking off contract bargaining on February 19. At Berkeley, Unit 18 lecturers can show their support at Bauer Wurster Hall throughout the day, and everyone can stop by California Hall for a solidarity bake sale 10:30a-2:00p! ✊🥧 @ucaft.bsky.social
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Most college students don’t realize 75% of their professors are "contingent"—meaning zero job security and often less than $3k per course. 📉 Episode 3 of #MAGAcademy is LIVE: We’re unmasking the reality of the Academic Gig Economy. 📽️ Full Episode in comments! @sydneysullivanphd.bsky.social
February 9, 2026 at 5:23 PM
Most college students don’t realize 75% of their professors are "contingent"—meaning zero job security and often less than $3k per course. 📉 Episode 3 of #MAGAcademy is LIVE: We’re unmasking the reality of the Academic Gig Economy. 📽️ Full Episode in comments! @sydneysullivanphd.bsky.social
Join the discussion with Tom Alter today at 5pm, 170 Bauer Wurster Hall on the UC Berkeley campus. Learn about the attacks on academic freedom and free speech, and how to organize a wide response to defend our rights. More info at defendtomalter.org @ucaft.bsky.social
February 10, 2026 at 7:07 PM
Join the discussion with Tom Alter today at 5pm, 170 Bauer Wurster Hall on the UC Berkeley campus. Learn about the attacks on academic freedom and free speech, and how to organize a wide response to defend our rights. More info at defendtomalter.org @ucaft.bsky.social
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“Many of the proposed “productivity” gains at the core of higher education are simply reductions in the quality of the product — larger classes, thinner feedback, fewer contact hours, more contingent labor.” www.chronicle.com/article/why-...
Opinion | Why Your University Has So Many Administrators
Great teaching is expensive, but back-office functions should be getting cheaper. Why aren’t they?
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February 4, 2026 at 5:22 PM
“Many of the proposed “productivity” gains at the core of higher education are simply reductions in the quality of the product — larger classes, thinner feedback, fewer contact hours, more contingent labor.” www.chronicle.com/article/why-...
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We asked Unit 18 lecturers, “What are your hopes for the new contract?”
Here’s the response of Erika S. from the UCD Writing Center.
Here’s the response of Erika S. from the UCD Writing Center.
February 3, 2026 at 6:28 PM
We asked Unit 18 lecturers, “What are your hopes for the new contract?”
Here’s the response of Erika S. from the UCD Writing Center.
Here’s the response of Erika S. from the UCD Writing Center.
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We asked Unit 18 lecturers, “What are your hopes for the new contract?”
Here’s the response of Jennifer R. from UCR’s Comparative Literature & Languages Department.
Here’s the response of Jennifer R. from UCR’s Comparative Literature & Languages Department.
February 3, 2026 at 6:25 PM
We asked Unit 18 lecturers, “What are your hopes for the new contract?”
Here’s the response of Jennifer R. from UCR’s Comparative Literature & Languages Department.
Here’s the response of Jennifer R. from UCR’s Comparative Literature & Languages Department.
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We asked Unit 18 lecturers, “What are your hopes for the new contract?”
Here’s the response of Amy K. from the UCSD Latin American Studies Program.
Here’s the response of Amy K. from the UCSD Latin American Studies Program.
February 3, 2026 at 6:21 PM
We asked Unit 18 lecturers, “What are your hopes for the new contract?”
Here’s the response of Amy K. from the UCSD Latin American Studies Program.
Here’s the response of Amy K. from the UCSD Latin American Studies Program.
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Sunshining is a legally mandated meeting that takes place before the start of collective bargaining negotiations. Reps from UC-AFT and UC management put forward proposals for the new contract. The public is allowed to comment on the contract and larger issues at stake.
February 3, 2026 at 6:12 PM
Sunshining is a legally mandated meeting that takes place before the start of collective bargaining negotiations. Reps from UC-AFT and UC management put forward proposals for the new contract. The public is allowed to comment on the contract and larger issues at stake.
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Unit 18 lecturers, it’s time for sunshine! Get ready for a statewide day of action on February 19 as we begin bargaining for a new contract!
February 3, 2026 at 6:09 PM
Unit 18 lecturers, it’s time for sunshine! Get ready for a statewide day of action on February 19 as we begin bargaining for a new contract!
Solidarity with UCB students standing against ICE terror in Minneapolis and everywhere. www.dailycal.org/news/campus/...
UC Berkeley students rally against ICE
About 300 UC Berkeley students and community members rallied yesterday against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, on the steps of Sproul Hall.
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January 30, 2026 at 1:44 AM
Solidarity with UCB students standing against ICE terror in Minneapolis and everywhere. www.dailycal.org/news/campus/...
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“For every human being that has been hunted based on their skin color, their form of labor, their language and their existence, we claim belonging to the land that we call the U.S.”
Kudos to the organizers who pulled off yesterday's UCLA rally and march, a demonstration of students' potential power
Kudos to the organizers who pulled off yesterday's UCLA rally and march, a demonstration of students' potential power
Over 1,000 demonstrators join on-campus walkout to protest ICE crackdowns - Daily Bruin
This post was updated Jan. 28 at 6:53 p.m. More than 1,000 people marched across campus Wednesday afternoon to protest the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign.
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January 29, 2026 at 4:29 PM
“For every human being that has been hunted based on their skin color, their form of labor, their language and their existence, we claim belonging to the land that we call the U.S.”
Kudos to the organizers who pulled off yesterday's UCLA rally and march, a demonstration of students' potential power
Kudos to the organizers who pulled off yesterday's UCLA rally and march, a demonstration of students' potential power
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It's going to take all of us to keep us safe - and that means we need YOU. Join our Community Meeting Weds Jan 27 at 6:30 and learn about multiple ways you can help protect our community from ICE
January 24, 2026 at 2:00 AM
It's going to take all of us to keep us safe - and that means we need YOU. Join our Community Meeting Weds Jan 27 at 6:30 and learn about multiple ways you can help protect our community from ICE
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“A prohibition on ‘indoctrination’–or ‘advocacy’ as Hermalin rephrases it–is incoherent in an American university classroom in which faculty and students routinely argue for and contest political & ethical views as part of investigating a wide range of subjects.” www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...
Two Takes: Was UC Berkeley right to suspend a lecturer over his pro-Palestinian advocacy?
The university suspended computer science lecturer Peyrin Kao after finding he made pro-Palestinian comments to students after a class. Here are different opinions on the matter.
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January 26, 2026 at 5:44 PM
“A prohibition on ‘indoctrination’–or ‘advocacy’ as Hermalin rephrases it–is incoherent in an American university classroom in which faculty and students routinely argue for and contest political & ethical views as part of investigating a wide range of subjects.” www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...
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San Francisco comes together to stand in solidarity with Minneapolis and everywhere: Abolish ICE!
January 25, 2026 at 2:50 AM
San Francisco comes together to stand in solidarity with Minneapolis and everywhere: Abolish ICE!
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The California Labor Movement stands in solidarity with our brothers and sisters in Minnesota as they protest ICE’s actions and declare Friday a day of no work, school or shopping. (1/3)
January 23, 2026 at 4:13 AM
The California Labor Movement stands in solidarity with our brothers and sisters in Minnesota as they protest ICE’s actions and declare Friday a day of no work, school or shopping. (1/3)
ICE OUT FOR GOOD. Friday, January 23, 2026, 4:00pm. Meet at Target on 4th & Mission in San Francisco, CA. Solidarity with Minneapolis. March on ICE profiteers.
January 22, 2026 at 10:54 PM
ICE OUT FOR GOOD. Friday, January 23, 2026, 4:00pm. Meet at Target on 4th & Mission in San Francisco, CA. Solidarity with Minneapolis. March on ICE profiteers.
ICE OUT OF EVERYWHERE! Solidarity with Minnesota. No Work. No School. No Shopping. Oakland, CA march & rally at Fruitvale BART. January 23, 2026, 4:00pm.
January 22, 2026 at 10:52 PM
ICE OUT OF EVERYWHERE! Solidarity with Minnesota. No Work. No School. No Shopping. Oakland, CA march & rally at Fruitvale BART. January 23, 2026, 4:00pm.
“One way the union responded to this crisis two weeks ago was by starting a massive public food distribution system so that union members do not go hungry while they are in hiding.” inthesetimes.com/article/minn... @ucaft.bsky.social
How One Minnesota Union Is Helping Members Survive the Federal Siege
UNITE HERE Local 17 is one of many unions, community organizations and faith groups calling for a work stoppage tomorrow, showing a key way Minnesotans are organizing against ICE.
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January 22, 2026 at 10:41 PM
“One way the union responded to this crisis two weeks ago was by starting a massive public food distribution system so that union members do not go hungry while they are in hiding.” inthesetimes.com/article/minn... @ucaft.bsky.social
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Why Trump's legal retreat from his anti-DEI campus push may be too late for many colleges:
www.latimes.com/world-nation...
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‘The damage is done’: Why Trump's DEI retreat in court may be too late for many colleges
The Trump administration has dropped its appeal of a federal court ruling that blocked a campaign against diversity, equity, and inclusion threatening federal funding to the nation’s schools and colle...
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January 22, 2026 at 2:30 AM
Why Trump's legal retreat from his anti-DEI campus push may be too late for many colleges:
www.latimes.com/world-nation...
www.latimes.com/world-nation...
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Be it resolved that UC-AFT will stand up now against ICE to fight for our collective civil rights, and for the social and racial justice that every person deserves. ucaft.org/news/resolut... @mplsunions.bsky.social
January 21, 2026 at 2:59 AM
Be it resolved that UC-AFT will stand up now against ICE to fight for our collective civil rights, and for the social and racial justice that every person deserves. ucaft.org/news/resolut... @mplsunions.bsky.social
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UC-AFT will take every legal action we are able to on January 23 to support this strike, including participation in economic boycotts, rallies, marches, teach-ins, donations to Minnesota-based and national strike funds. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
January 21, 2026 at 2:59 AM
UC-AFT will take every legal action we are able to on January 23 to support this strike, including participation in economic boycotts, rallies, marches, teach-ins, donations to Minnesota-based and national strike funds. docs.google.com/document/d/1...