Tag: wages

Morgan State Offers Full-Time Status, Benefits and Higher Pay to Contractual Employees

In an effort to address employee inequity, Morgan State University will no longer hire contractual employees to meet its workforce needs, announced Dr. David K. Wilson, president of Morgan State. Instead, the historically Black university will offer benefits and full-time status to eligible existing contractual employees. What’s more, the university will also raise its hourly […]

August 4, 2021

Three Steps to Civic Love in the Time of COVID-19

To serve those to whom we belong well, attentiveness and affinity are key. Affinity and awareness amount to a form of love. Serving well is love in the time of COVID-19, and I offer these three steps to consider.

April 2, 2020

Group of UCSC Graduate Student Workers On Strike

A group of graduate student workers at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) are on strike and withholding students’ semester grades until given a 70% pay increase, which would equal an additional $1,412 a month. According to the students, the raise would account for the higher cost of living in Santa Cruz, which they […]

December 12, 2019

Leadership & Policy

University of California Workers Strike for Higher Wages

SAN FRANCISCO — Electricians, elevator mechanics, plumbers and other workers walked off the job Wednesday at UCLA to demand higher wages on day one of two planned strikes this week at a pair of University of California campuses. A 24-hour strike was taking place at UCLA and a similar walkout was planned Thursday at UC […]

November 16, 2016

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