{"id":316417,"date":"2026-05-15T01:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T01:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/316417\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T01:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T01:34:09","slug":"the-wire-uc-workers-avert-strike-with-tentative-deal-at-final-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/316417\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wire: UC workers avert strike with tentative deal at final hour"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"\/A 2022 file photo of UC Berkeley. Credit: Kelly Sullivan for Berkeleyside<\/p>\n

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About 40,000 unionized University of California workers averted a strike Thursday after reaching a tentative deal with UC. They\u2019ll get raises and caps to healthcare premium costs. (LA Times<\/a>, Daily Cal<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"\"\/The BUSD workforce housing project under construction on Thursday. Credit: Karen Farber for Berkeleyside<\/p>\n

Berkeley school district employees \u2014 and others with low or moderate incomes \u2014 can apply through Aug. 12 to live in the district\u2019s new workforce housing project aimed at helping educators live and stay in the cities where they work. (City of Berkeley<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Along with Robert Reich,\u00a0Charles Long will also speak at UC Berkeley\u2019s commencement this Saturday. Long, 43, won the University Medal, the campus\u2019 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<\/a>)<\/p>\n

The nation\u2019s first journalism fellowship devoted to humor honors Berkeley writer Alice Kahn. (Berkeley Journalism<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Saul Perlmutter, who won the Nobel Prize in physics in 2011, helped start a UC Berkeley class called \u201cSense and Sensibility and Science\u201d that has become a perennial favorite. (SF Chronicle<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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 Rend\u00f3n. (East Bay Times<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Berkeley\u2019s U.S. Rep. Lateefah Simon is facing a challenge from Jamie Joyce, who\u2019s calling for an overhaul of the Democratic Party. (East Bay Times<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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