Tag: California
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How University of California Researchers Began Refusing Military Work
As unionized workers in higher education, we are positioned to intervene at the very beginning of the military supply chain. The Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions issued an urgent call on October 16 to stop arming Israel—including the specific request to disrupt military funding and military research.
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Shoved From the Ivory Tower
By Heather Ringo and Julia Métraux for Disability Visibility Project, CC-BY-NC 4.0 Shoved From the Ivory Tower: Disabled Graduate Students Crushed Between the University of California & Their Union On November 29th, 2022, over 200 disabled union workers and allies gathered on Zoom to beg members of the UAW 2865 Bargaining Team (BT) not to…
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California’s Public Scientists Union Battles Covid-19, Climate Crisis, and Austerity on Pay from Newsom Administration
By Steve Sander for massolidarity.org, CC BY-NC-NA 4.0 The California Association of Professional Scientists (CAPS) represents toxicologists, biologists, veterinarians, geologists, chemists, and other scientific practitioners and researchers who play pivotal roles in ensuring that the state’s residents have clean and sanitary food, water, air, and soil. Many state scientists are also leading the state’s response…
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Extreme heat + air pollution can be deadly, with the health risk together worse than either alone
Erika Garcia, University of Southern California; Md Mostafijur Rahman, University of Southern California, and Rob Scot McConnell, University of Southern California On the morning news, you see the weather forecast is for high heat, and there is an “excessive heat watch” for later in the week. You were hoping the weather would cool down, but…
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