UC Workers to Take Strike Vote Next Week
Food service workers celebrated in Woodland yesterday their victory from last month when the university announced they…
MAJOR VICTORY FOR CAMPUS FOOD WORKERS
Workers Applaud University Decision but Lament Delay in Timeline It was nearly a year ago last year…
UC Davis College Democrats Win Award and Sponsoring Debra Bowen Event Tonight
Debra Bowen Event TONIGHT
Dear Vanguard Readers,
The Davis College Democrats would like to present to you California Secretary of State Debra Bowen, Speaking Tonight @ 7pm in Wellman 2.
Secretary Bowen has been a strong advocate for open government and clean elections where every vote is counted. Prior to the February 5th Presidential Primary, she de-certified several counties’ voting machines during a top-to-bottom review of the states voting system, in an effort to ensure the existence of a paper trail and require every vote to be counted.
May Day Protesters Head to Court Requesting Government Open Records to Them
On May 1, 2007 hundreds of students, protesters, and food service workers marched from the Memorial Union…
UC Files Unfair Labor Practice Charge Against AFSCME
The California Aggie yesterday reported that UC has filed an unfair labor practice charge against AFSCME 3299…
UC Regents, Fee Increase, Pay Raises All Par For the Course
On Wednesday, at UC Davis Chancellor Larry Vanderhoef’s quaterly brown bag lunch he laid out a number…
Chancellor’s Brown Bag Lunch Brings Renewed Calls for Justice For Sodexho Workers
Yesterday UC Davis Chancellor Larry Vanderhoef had his “brown bag lunch” where he spoke before a group…
Local Leaders Join in Solidarity of Sodexho Workers
The Sodexho Workers’ continuing fight for fair wages, affordable health care, and better working conditions has generating…
UC Davis Faculty Report Blasts UC Davis for Low Wages and Lack of Benefits for Workers
Yesterday a press conference was held by a newly formed faculty group to demand UC status for…
Guest Commentary: UC, THE WAL-MART OF HIGHER EDUCATION?
By: Hank Chapot If you love the University of California, you may be interested in a study…
Sodexho Workers Present Card to Chancellor’s Office
A group of six Sodexho Food Service workers from UC Davis gathered at Mrak Hall late yesterday…
Senator Leland Yee Named “Legislator of the Year” by ASUCD and then comes to Davis and Shows Us Why
On Thursday night, California State Senator Leland Yee came to UCD to receive the “Legislator of the…
Former President Clinton Pledges Support to Sodexho Food Service Workers
Upon a special arrangement, the Sodexho Workers representatives were given the opportunity to meet and briefly speak…
Yolo County Democratic Central Committee Resolution Unanimously Supports UC Davis Food Service Workers
On Monday Night, the Yolo County Central Committee voted unanimously to pass a resolution in support of…
Enterprise Article Misleadingly Suggests Sodexho Workers’ Pay Now On Par with UC Employees
Even in the Davis Enterprise’s yearly synopsis of their top stories, they find a way to summarize…
2007 Year in Review–10 Biggest Vanguard Stories of 2007
As the first full year of the People’s Vanguard of Davis comes to completion, we will countdown…
Commentary: Diversity at the UC’s Falling Behind State Levels
It was no surprise earlier this week when the long awaited University of California Diversity Report came out and found that enrollment of minorities and underrepresented students have fallen well behind their statewide representation in the population as a whole.
Overall advances in UC diversity in the 1980s and early 1990s have reversed direction, the report states, and any small gains have been concentrated at a few campuses. Women and non-Asian minorities continue to have particularly low levels of representation in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math, the report noted.
Sodexho Workers and Supporters Speak and Walk Out of the UC Regents Meeting at the Mondavi Center in Davis
During open comment period at the UC Regents meeting at the Mondavi Senator, a throng of at…
Local Faith Based Group Among Many Standing With Sodexho Food Service Workers at UCD
Today at 8:30 am at the Mondavi center, workers, community members, and students will be confronting the…
Commentary: It’s all a matter of Priorities
UC DavisTruth be told, I’m actually a big college football fan. In fact, I spent much of yesterday watching the first full day of college football. With that said, I also think that most universities place too much of a priority on things such as their football program, stadiums, etc. It is one thing for the big programs with huge endowments to spend millions on it, but for the average school, their sports programs is not a net revenue generator.
In any case, I don’t have a general problem building new facilities and stadiums, however it is interesting when a university has no trouble finding say $31 million to build a new stadium, but cannot find a few million to improve the salaries of some of their employees who are making meager wages at best. That is where I start to have a bit of a problem with our priorities.
