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May 8th: March for Custodian Wage Equity @ UCB

by UC Has the Money!
Custodians at UCSC need your support. After a very unproductive negotiation session with UC Administration last Friday, UC custodians are moving full steam ahead for a Commencement March for Custodian Wage Equity at UC Berkeley on Tuesday, May 8th. UC was given $8.5 million earmarked for custodians on 4 UC campuses, but the administration is only offering a fraction of that. We're aiming to fill a charter bus with workers, students and community members to demand they hand all of the money over. Please join us!
What: Commencement March for Custodian Wage Equity!
When: Tuesday, May 8th @ UC Berkeley
10:00am Watsonville Vanpool: Target Parking lot
10:30am UCSC Vanpool: Bay Tree Plaza
1:00pm Gathering at Lower Sproul Plaza, UC Berkeley

Thanks for your support!!!
§Sit-in at UC Regent Blum Poverty Center
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§sit-in w/ police
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§Berkeley City Council Support Sitting-In
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§Students read poetry to outside rally
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§students sitting-in arrested
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§more photos
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You can see lots more photos - especially from the rally that coincided with the occupation - here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/16683022@N00/sets/72157600199446571/
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by roknich (roknich (at) electromagnet.us)
I'm trying to follow the money, and if the US$8.5 Million was appropriated with specific language, then criminal and civil charges can be brought against the UC per Title 12 sections 424, 425, and 440 of the California Penal Code for Misappropriation of Public Funds.

Will someone tell me the details of the "$8.5 million earmarked for custodians"? What is the legal status of the money? And who is the CFO of UC?
by randomite
The $8.5 million was from the the CA Legislature.

maybe http://www.afscmee3299.org has more details
or
http://www.berkeleysbetrayal.org/

The UC system is run by UC Office of the President with guidance by the Regents.
http://www.ucop.edu/
by roknich (roknich (at) electromagnet.us)
Thanks for the help - but you put an extra e in afscme so the link in your comment doesn't work. I visited :

http://www.afscme3299.org

and couldn't find wanted I wanted -
If the US$8.5Million was earmarked for janitor salaries, and spent otherwise, felony charges should be filed accord to the statutes I quoted previously.
The administrators are paying themselves with the money:
rather well, by stealing from the mouths of the poor.

At the very least, they can and should be comvicted of misappropriation - which is a felony.
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