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Public comment at Regents meeting focuses on affordability, labor contracts and divestment
Summary
More than 50 speakers addressed the regents on issues including worker wages and contracts, student basic needs and food insecurity, divestment from private equity and campus Title IX protections for technology-facilitated harms. Student and union representatives urged systemwide policy changes and emergency funding.
During the public comment portion of the January 21 Board of Regents meeting at UCLA, more than 50 speakers gave brief remarks to the board on a wide range of issues affecting students, staff and community members.
Several recurring themes dominated remarks. Labor and contract concerns were frequent: Michael Vaught, president of AFSCME Local 32 99, said frontline UC workers have been without a contract for more than a year and called attention to compensation and homelessness among employees. He asserted the university’s financial position had strengthened while workers faced hardship, and handed regents a summary of university financial reports.
Union and campus staff speakers asked for…
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