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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A group of striking University of California workers held a sit-in Monday at a downtown Sacramento building, where police officers surrounded them for a few hours before citing them for trespassing.

Diego Villegas had no illusions that leaving Mexico City to pursue a graduate degree at University of California-Berkeley would be easy. But he was unprepared for the harsh reality of finding safe and affordable housing in a college town struggling to accommodate its growing student population.

The University of California is trying to divide and conquer the 48,000 workers on strike by acceding to the demands of some groups but not others

LOS ANGELES — More than 1,000 University of California faculty members are imploring Gov. Gavin Newsom and state legislators to wade into the ongoing academic workers strike and urge UC leaders to meet union demands.

University of California campuses come to a standstill as 48,000 student workers strike for better pay

When graduate teaching assistants strike, my work becomes impossible. I’m a professor at the University of California as we see the largest higher education strike in U.S. history. My 250 students — mostly new to UC San Diego this fall — have lost their teaching assistants to the picket line.…

Postdoctoral scholars and academic researchers on Tuesday reached a tentative labor agreement with the University of California

LOS ANGELES — In a historic breakthrough, University of California postdoctoral scholars and academic researchers reached a tentative agreement Tuesday on what union leaders described as their highest ever salary increase — but workers won’t return to campus in solidarity with some 36,000 graduate student workers who remain on strike.

LOS ANGELES — UCLA junior Sania Tuli is worried that she’s missing material she’ll need when she takes her medical college admission exam next year. UC Riverside senior Nathalie Boutros fears she is falling behind in a class required to graduate because she hasn’t been able to find help during…

Four schools in the University of California system have repeatedly failed to return sacred Native American artifacts to tribes in a timely manner, according to a new state audit.

LOS ANGELES — As the nation's largest ever strike of higher-education academic workers enters its third week Monday, with the crunch time of final exams just days away, fears are rising over long-lasting and unintended consequences to the University of California's core missions of teaching and research.