A 2022 file photo of UC Berkeley. Credit: Kelly Sullivan for Berkeleyside
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About 40,000 unionized University of California workers averted a strike Thursday after reaching a tentative deal with UC. They’ll get raises and caps to healthcare premium costs. (LA Times, Daily Cal)
The BUSD workforce housing project under construction on Thursday. Credit: Karen Farber for Berkeleyside
Berkeley school district employees — and others with low or moderate incomes — can apply through Aug. 12 to live in the district’s new workforce housing project aimed at helping educators live and stay in the cities where they work. (City of Berkeley)
Along with Robert Reich, Charles Long will also speak at UC Berkeley’s commencement this Saturday. Long, 43, won the University Medal, the campus’ top award for a graduating senior and is a sociology and social welfare double-major with a 4.0 whose time incarcerated has motivated him to improve the criminal justice system. (Berkeley News)
The nation’s first journalism fellowship devoted to humor honors Berkeley writer Alice Kahn. (Berkeley Journalism)
Saul Perlmutter, who won the Nobel Prize in physics in 2011, helped start a UC Berkeley class called “Sense and Sensibility and Science” that has become a perennial favorite. (SF Chronicle)
Berkeley Assemblymember Buffy Wicks is facing two challengers on the June ballot in the race for her District 14 state seat: Republican Borgar Solnordal and Green Party candidate Mark Rendón. (East Bay Times)
Berkeley’s U.S. Rep. Lateefah Simon is facing a challenge from Jamie Joyce, who’s calling for an overhaul of the Democratic Party. (East Bay Times)
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