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Thursday, 5/1/97 Community Briefs

TAs on three-day strike at UC Berkeley Graduate student instructors at the University of California, Berkeley began a three-day strike Wednesday which will end on Friday, in continuing effort to gain collective bargaining rights from the university. Student instructors voted to strike if the university did not recognize the Association of Graduate Student Employees, UAW Local 2165 (AGSE/UAW) as their collective bargaining agent. Over 1,000 of 1,700 Teaching Assistants (TAs) at UC Berkeley joined the AGSE/UAW during a recent membership drive. Despite legal rulings in the graduate student employees' favor, the UC administration is still denying them the right to be represented by a union. "The rights and benefits that are being denied us as employees are fundamental," said AGSE/UAW member and graduate student Lily Khadjavi. "The continued refusal by the university to even discuss the situation with us in a serious fashion reveals their position as completely unreasonable and inappropriate." Last September, a judge from the Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) ruled that TAs, readers and tutors at UCLA have collective bargaining rights, but the UC refused to accept the ruling. Spurred by the UC's refusal to acknowledge the graduate students' union at UCLA, graduate student activity on other campuses increased dramatically. Thousands of graduate students are expected to strike this month throughout the UC system. Anderson School awards scholarships Executives from various non-profit organizations were awarded scholarships by the Anderson School at UCLA in order to attend a week-long session in the business school's Executive Education Program. The American Red Cross, Los Angeles Free Clinic, United Way, American Heart Association and Salvation Army benefitted from the scholarships. Executives from the organizations will attend classes in the Advanced Program in Human Resources Management. "These scholarships will enable these five executives to learn the best practices and latest thinking in human resources management," said William Ouchi, vice dean of the Executive Education Program. The program is one of many in which the Anderson School is involved for the continuing education of the non-profit sector. The business school's Not-for-Profit Management Program was recently ranked fourth in the nation by U.S. News & World Report. "I believe that the same skills that create success in business can also benefit other areas of the community. That is why the Anderson School is committed to providing management education to the non-profit sector," said William Pierskalla, dean of the Anderson School. Recipients of the scholarships to the Human Resources Management event expressed a strong interest in enhancing their management skills. "By getting an academic perspective on theories that I may already be applying in my organization without knowing, I can plan my tactics and strategize better," said Michelle Cabray of the Los Angeles Free Clinic. CYA wards contribute time to public service Young offenders in the California Youth Authority's (CYA) institutions and camps statewide contributed over 682,000 hours of public service during 1996, according to CYA Director Francisco J. Alarcon. Public service is required as a means of holding young offenders more accountable for their behavior and providing a form of restitution that benefits communities and the state, said Alarcon. Compiled from Daily Bruin staff reports.

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