Editorial: UC lacks transparency, exploits lecturers by cutting benefits
UC’s chief negotiator said early March that summer lecturers at UCLA and several other campuses will lose their retirement benefits starting summer 2017. The UC isn’t required to provide retirement benefits under its agreement with the American Federation of Teachers Local 1990, a union which represents UC lecturers and librarians. That’s apparently reason enough for the UC to cut these 15-year-old benefits. These cuts shouldn’t come as a surprise. The UC has historically mistreated its lecturers by providing them meager salaries, slashing their retirement benefits and potentially withholding academic funding from them.
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by The Editorial Board, The Daily Bruin.