Employee Benefits

2019

• Silo Thinking and the Runaway Train on Retiree Health Care (UCLAFA 6/25/19)
• Retiree Healthcare Benefits Are a Target for Cost Cutting Once Again at UCOP (UCDFA 6/19)
• More on the Runaway Retiree Health Care Train (UCLAFA 6/14/19)
• UCLA Emeriti Assn. Statement to Regents on Proposed Privatization of Retiree Health (UCLAFA 6/11/19)
• Support for UC Workers (Signature Collection 6/19)
• Runaway Train on Retiree Health Care (UCLAFA 6/7/19)
• “Worker Power Is a Threat to the Way the University Is Run” (Jacobin 6/4/19)
• Suit Targets Changes to UA Tenure Policy (Arkansas Online 6/1/19)
• 2021 - and maybe 2020 - Health Care Changes - Part 2 (UCLAFA 5/25/19)
• 2021 Health Care Changes (UCLAFA 5/11/19)
• UC Strike News (UCLAFA 3/9/19)
• UC Librarians Continue Negotiating With UCOP Over Contracts (Daily Bruin 2/3/19)
• Wright State Professors Strike Over Board-Imposed Contract They Say Would Gut Faculty Rights and Compensation (IHE 1/23/19)

2018

• The Livermore Case on Retiree Health Entitlements (UCLAFA 12/27/18)
• DePauw Faculty Split on No-Confidence Vote in President (IHE 11/21/18)
• Do Unions Help Adjuncts? (CHE 6/3/18)
• PSC tells Albany: ‘$7K for adjuncts!’ (Portside 5/14/18)
• Coverage of UC Workers May 7-9 Strike (Cloudminder 5/9/18)
• The Light at the End of the Retiree Health Care Tunnel May Be a Train (UCLAFA 4/16/18)
• Demands Against the Long Crisis of the University (Critical Legal Thinking 2/14/18)

2017

• Work Group to be Formed to Study, Make Recommendations About Health Benefits for Retirees (UCnet 10/11/17)
• Dropping the Floor at Least Delayed (UCLAFA 10/7/17)
• CFA, CSU Reach Tentative Agreement on Two-Year Contract Extension (Academe Blog 9/26/17)
• Despite Removal of 70% Retiree Health Care Floor From July Regents' Agenda, Issue Isn't Dead (UCLAFA 7/19/17)
• Senate Response to Proposed Changes in Retiree Health Care (UC Academic Senate 7/6/17)
• Stealth Regents Item (UCLAFA 7/2/17)
• Organizing in the University (Viewpoint Magazine 6/1/17)
• In Higher Ed, Adjuncts May Have Most to Lose if Obamacare Is Repealed (CHE 5/5/17)
• Thousands Of UC Workers Go On Strike For Fair Wages, Pensions (Huff Po 1/10/17)

2016

• Union Victory for Student Employees! (Academe Blog 8/23/16)
• Student Assistants Covered by the NLRA (NLRB 8/23/16)
• Employees Sue Four More Universities Over Retirement Plan Fees (NYT 8/11/16)
• M.I.T., N.Y.U. and Yale Are Sued Over Retirement Plan Fees (NYT 8/9/16)

2015

• Task Force Charged With Making a Silk Purse Out Of You-Know-What (UCLAFA 8/8/15)
• Lecturers Deserve Better Benefits, Greater Job Security (Daily Cal 6/8/15)
• Too Tier-full? (UCLAFA 2/3/15)
• Adjuncts Stall U. of Memphis Attempt to Privatize Their Social Security (IHE 1/13/15)
• New Congress Seeks to Redefine Full-Time Work in Health Law, Which Colleges Support, Adjuncts Don't (IHE 1/8/15)
• Blue Shield vs. Sutter Health Dispute To Force Thousands To Switch Doctors (Napa Valley Patch 1/6/15)

2014

• Governor to Target Retiree Health Care (UCLAFA 12/17/14)
• How Did These Graduate Students Improve Their Working Conditions? They Went on Strike! (The Nation 12/12/14)
• UC Health Care: What's Coming in 2015 (Christopher Newfield 11/6/14)
• UCLA vs. Kaiser (UCLAFA 9/17/14)
• 300 Protest Take-Backs in UMass Amherst Contracts (MTA 9/14)
• UC Announces Changes to Retiree Health Benefits Eligibility Rules (Daily Cal 5/28/14)
• UC Officials Need to Adhere to Labor Contract (Daily Cal 4/15/14)
• Further Troubles with UC Care (Judith Paltin 4/10/14)
• Why Solidarity is Important, or, An Open Letter to UC Faculty (Earl Perez-Foust 3/25/14)
• UC Care Stories (Michael Meranze 3/14/14)
• When Will UC Stop Downgrading Faculty Salaries and Benefits? (Christopher Newfield 3/7/14)
• Elizabeth Warren vs. The Neoliberals: The Battle Over Americans’ Retirement Security (Salon 2/12/14)
• Colorado Lawmakers Take Up Sweeping Overhaul of Adjunct Working Conditions (CHE 2/4/14)

2013

• Union Logic of The Insurance Changes: The Case of Retiree Healthcare (Christopher Newfield 12/15/13)
• Obamacare and UC Care (Christopher Newfield 12/9/13)
• UCSB Health Care Update: The Rest of Tier 1 is Yet to Come (Christopher Newfield 11/23/13)
• UCR Faculty Association Letter to Colleagues on UC Care and Riverside (Hint: It is a Lot Like Santa Barbara) (Remaking 11/17/13)
• UCSB FA Open Letter to President Napolitano on UCOP and the Health Care Fiasco (Remaking 11/17/13)
• Come See The Benefits Show! (Christopher Newfield 11/7/13)
• Wellness Plans, Retirement and Adjunct Health Care: A Survey of Chief HR Officers (IHE 10/25/13)
• More on UC Care (Berkeley Anonymous 10/15/13)
• Adjunct Inequities (IHE 10/15/13)
• UC (Doesn’t) Care (Santa Barbara Independent 10/14/13)
• Some Further Questions About UC Care (Michael Meranze 10/12/13)
• Let’s Pop the Bubble Surrounding Part-Time Faculty (CHE 10/11/13)
• Changes in U. of California's Medical Plans Worry Some Employees (CHE 10/10/13)
• The Plot Thickens on UC Care in Santa Barbara (Christopher Newfield 10/10/13)
• Health Care Trouble and a Simple Solution (Christopher Newfield 10/9/13)
• UC Imposes Pension Terms on Employees; Union Protests (LAT 9/25/13)
• Fixing the UC Retirement System Time Bomb (UCBFA 8/12/13)
• Union Raises for Adjuncts (IHE 7/26/13)
• Will UCOP's Latest Efficiency Tax Employees? (Christopher Newfield 6/23/13)