The Progressive Faculty Group at UCD will continue supporting contracted-out workers until the university administration gives them union represented jobs directly with UC Davis. Download our report From the Shadows: How University of California Davis Contracting-Out Fosters Worker Poverty

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Report on UCD food-service wages takes aim at administration;
Faculty group seeks support to urge university to hire Sodexho workers
By: Kathy Robertson
Sacramento Business Journal
February 15, 2008

Mrak Hall speakers call for improved food worker status Progressive Faculty Group works for 'economic
and social justice
'
By: Anna Opalka
The California Aggie
February 11, 2008

Faculty Support Food Workers
By Sharon Stello and Beth Curda
Davis Enterprise
February 08, 2008

UC Davis Faculty Report Blasts UC Davis for Low Wages and Lack of Benefits for Workers
The People’s Vanguard of Davis
February 8, 2008

A letter signed by 60 UC Davis faculty members was released Monday in support of food service workers who want to become university employees
The Davis Enterprise
By: Sharon Stello,
May 1, 2007


Food-service workers to engage in civil disobedience today:
Effort to obtain university employment continues
By: Bo Hee Kim
The California Aggie
May 1, 2007


Twenty-four arrested in food-service employment protests Civil disobedience rallies erupt on campus, in city
By: Bo Hee Kim
The California Aggie
May 2, 2007




Fred Block, professor of Sociology and member of PFG discusses how UC Davis administration is creating poverty and violating its own principals of community at press conference. From left to right are, Roberto Cordura, contracted-out Receiver; West Sacramento Mayor Christopher Cabaldon; Joe Moreno, Contracted-out Cook; Mercy Munoz, UC Davis Custodian (Formerly contracted-out cook).

Watch the 2/7/08 Press Conference Videos

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