Advocacy groups calling for the UC to hire students without legal status and fairly compensate union-affiliated workers held protests outside the University of California Board of Regents meeting Wednesday at the UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center.
Opportunity for All, a UC-wide student organization campaigning for equal access to employment and resources for students without legal status, held a rally that featured faculty and student speeches and a march to the Luskin Conference Center to form a picket line.
Hundreds of students gathered in front of Kerckhoff Hall to hear student leaders speak about their experiences with employment opportunities at UCs. Following this, the organizers, dressed in blue Opportunity for All shirts, began to march towards the conference center and repeatedly chanted, “Up and down the state, listen to your students, President Drake.”
Opportunity for All held the UCLA rally during the regents meeting to demand that the UC allow employment of students without legal status in university positions, said Carlos Alarcón, a second-year public policy graduate student and rally leader. Students without legal status can face more difficulties qualifying for necessary resources, hurting their chances of employment, Alarcón added.
“Those who don’t qualify for DACA, they don’t have federal work authorization, they don’t have the social security number,” Alarcón said. “That’s the excuse that many state...
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