#Pip #UC
£416.19 Victory for Disabled People - High Court Ruling Declared DWP’s Benefit Reforms Unfair & Illegal
https://www.theydondrama.org/416-19-victory-for-disabled-people-high-court-ruling-declared-dwps-benefit-reforms-unfair-illegal/

Give this a listen if you wish.

#DEI #UC #California

https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101909387/california-universities-grapple-with-trump-threats-investigations

U. de Chile y UC lanzan “Más para Chile”, escuela de formación política enfocada en las próximas elecciones parlamentarias | vía #UChileRadio

https://radio.uchile.cl/2025/03/29/u-de-chile-y-uc-lanzan-mas-para-chile-escuela-de-formacion-politica-enfocada-en-las-proximas-elecciones-parlamentarias/

“It’s not fair to target the most vulnerable people in society. It’s hard to believe we’ve got a #Labour Government.”

#UKPol #Benefits #UC #PIP

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/i-cant-believe-its-labour-31238180

The #DWP claimed in a press release last month that there had been a “staggering 319% increase” in the number of working-age people on the health and disability element of #UC

But although there had been an increase – most likely caused by the impact of growing NHS waiting-lists and the Covid pandemic, among other factors – it was likely to be about 30 to 35 %, if comparing 2019-20 with 2023-24.

The 319% figure was quietly removed from the press release last week.

The #uc regents have announced budget cuts. They have no problem paying for athletic teams to travel to Ohio.

The maintenance #unions, staff and faculty? Tighten your belts.

"#Labour has a devious plan to avoid the inclusion and respecting disabled people’s rights pitfalls that the Tories encountered with their consultation. The ingenious solution it has found? Not running one at all."

#UKPol #Disability #Benefits #UC #PIP

https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2025/03/19/universal-credit-changes/

"Britain has got physically and mentally sicker since 2020. No other wealthy country has experienced a trend as marked as this, suggesting it’s not purely about Covid or the cost of living (though it’s worth noting the UK is only now spending roughly the average for comparable countries on disability benefits). It’s more likely to be a product of how these have interacted with the UK’s public services and welfare system."

#UKPol #Health #Benefits #UC #PIP #DLA

https://www.theguardian.com/society/commentisfree/2025/mar/16/mps-disability-benefits-cuts-pip

"Former shadow chancellor Ed Balls criticised the proposed #welfare cuts for #disabled people as ‘not a #Labour thing to do’."

#UKPol #Benefits #Disability #UC #PIP

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/mar/15/downing-street-considers-u-turn-on-cuts-to-benefits-for-disabled-people

Please boost: One thing I miss here in the Fediverse is scuttlebutt from UC Davis and UCs in general. I used to be able to get some of that from the birdsite.

If you're at UC Davis, esp if you're an undergrad (I'm not, but I like to stay in touch with what's going on in the undergrad experience), let me know. Let's find each other.

I don't want Reddit, Discord, and Facebook to be the only choices. @academicchatter

Solidarity with academic workers striking at University of California, Santa Cruz against police repression of campus Gaza protests! And with the 48,000 academic workers, at 11 UC campuses, who have just authorized a statewide strike vote.

Meanwhile the UC has filed an unfair labor practices complaint with the NLRB, claiming it's unlawful to strike over issues that aren't "labor related." But how is it not "labor related" when the UC is firing and disciplining teachers for expressing solidarity with Palestine? How is it not "labor related" when they're using the police to create a violent and disruptive environment in their workplaces?

Mostly sharing this to celebrate the rare *quadruple negative* in the article's title. But also, yes, good on these Cal folk for opposing the normalization of genocide and the celebration of war criminals. It's a well written letter.

Mondoweiss:
"UC Berkeley students and faculty reject university condemnation of protest of anti-Palestinian speaker"

'When Zionist comfort is threatened, it is a crisis. When Palestinians die, it is business as usual, and Palestinians must accept it in the name of dialogue.

'Only in such a zone of imagined Palestinian non-existence could Zionist groups have dared to invite Ran Bar-Yoshafat to speak on campus Monday night. An Israeli soldier fresh from Gaza’s killing fields, he has voiced his support for the genocide because “every school, mosque, hospital, kindergarten – all – without exception- is a terror camp.” He blissfully declares how the extermination of up to 1,500,000 Palestinians would “certainly solve the demographic problem.”'

@palestine #UC #Berkeley

Edit: Um, I guess I forgot to include the link to the article. Woops! Thanks for the boosts anyway!

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/03/uc-berkeley-students-and-faculty-respond-to-university-condemnation-of-protest-of-anti-palestinian-speaker/

"WHY DON'T YOU WANT TO WIN" the online #Starmerite people will say, in answer to multiple charities, academic studies, politicians, official reports, countless members of the public and God knows what else telling them that: a) the #2ChildLimit for #UniversalCredit is a direct driver of child poverty, and b) abolishing it for #UC would be relatively cheap, and would bring dividends.

They've become everything they denounce in the Corbyn people. A leader cult for #Starmer, arguing furiously against reality when it intrudes on their internal world.

3 University of California graduate students workers have been charged with felony vandalism for writing slogans on a building in CHALK in an attempt to squelch Free Speech and Union Organizing. Penalties could be up to $50,000.

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/labor-unionization/2023/07/07/uc-unions-chalk-markers-led-felony-vandalism

#WorkingClass #uc
#FreeSpeech #labor #Organizing #students #university #school

UAW bosses are collaborating with UC bosses to dock the pay of UC workers, in retaliation for their recent strike, by telling their members that they are required to truthfully answer attestation forms, sent by UC administration, declaring which days and hours they withheld their labor. The problem is that the UC administration doesn’t know who went on strike, or which days and hours they withheld their labor. A similar letter was sent to professors who canceled classes in solidarity with the striking workers. They filed a cease-and-desist order, calling UC’s action illegal. UC Santa Cruz grad student workers are refusing to cooperate.

Support UC grad student workers, still on strike, while their union (UAW) collaborates with the bosses and the state to cram a poverty-wage contract down their throats.

UC grad student strike, largest strike of 2022, is approaching 1 month, with UC insisting it's offering workers a deal as good or better than any other Univ, which is to say, Shitty.

Time for a General Strike of all Univ Workers!