Prepared on behalf of the DFA Board by Joe Kiskis, who acknowledges discussions with UCLA Professor Dan Mitchell and assistance from Eric Hays. This is an update on activity at UCOP related to medical benefits for active employees and to…
As part of the Council of UC Faculty Associations, the Davis Faculty Association has taken an active role in resisting the planned partnership between the University of California system and Dignity Healthcare. Such an affiliation would have been problematic for…
Attacks on faculty free speech and academic freedom are at an unprecedented high. Come join your colleagues and discuss how to protect our academic freedom at an afternoon dedicated to “Knowledge, Power, and the Future of Academic Freedom,” Thursday, April…
In a repeat of the strike this past fall, the 14,000 research, technical and health-care professionals represented by UPTE-CWA, have announced a strike for March 20. The 25,000 members of AFSCME 3299’s patient-care unit, who are also negotiating a contract…
UC librarians have been working without a contract since October 1. Their first bargaining session of the new year will be held on the UC Davis campus tomorrow. UC-AFT, the union that represents UC’s non-senate faculty and librarians, have asked…
The UC Davis Emeriti Association has been producing videos for many years now. The goal is to preserve the history of UC Davis through oral history interviews of UCD faculty. They recently interviewed the Davis Faculty Association’s first president, Ed…
