First layoff notice at UC Berkeley spurs rally, criticism of chancellor

Amid growing discontent over a campus budget crisis revealed publicly in February, workers on Thursday rallied in support of a clerical employee believed to be the first to receive a layoff notice: Janette Reid, who has worked for three decades on the campus, mostly as an administrative assistant in the Department of Molecular & Cell Biology… At Thursday’s rally, organized by Teamsters Local 2010, some carried signs blasting Chancellor Nicholas Dirks. Some read: “Workers not responsible for Dirks’ incompetence.”

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by Katy Murphy, The East Bay Times.

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