A group of 21 unions and faculty associations representing more than 100,000 University of California employees sued Trump on Tuesday, accusing him of illegally forcing UC education, violating the constitution and endangered work, suspending research grants and seeking $1.2 billion fines against UCLA.
The lawsuit filed in federal court in the northern California area of San Francisco-based state, claiming that the government’s swift action against the UCLA and UC systems violates employee rights to freedom of speech and due process. The Justice Department (accusing UCLA of not doing enough to stop anti-Semitism on campus – demanding a major overhaul of UCLA’s policies on recruitment, admission, athletics, scholarships, diversity and gender identity.
The lawsuit also claimed that the government violated the Tenth Amendment, which stated that the powers not conferred by the Constitution to the federal government were reserved for the states and the American people. The lawsuit states that the Trump administration is trying to “limit $17 billion of federal funds from the system through “coercion” and, if it does not meet the requirements, attempt to “coerce” the University of California through “coercion”.
A spokesperson for the Justice Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The lawsuit is a second lawsuit independently filed by colleagues of UC faculty and workers who aim to reverse federal grants and prevent the administration from demanding that UC’s mission and values be pushed toward the rights of race, diversity, LGBTQ+ communities and immigration.
“We won’t be with the Trump administration trying to destroy one of the country’s largest public university higher education systems and defeating academic freedom on the University of California’s academic freedom (the core of the respected free speech movement)” said Todd Wolfson, president of the U.S. professor, U.S. president. The group belongs to the UC campus’s faculty group and is one of the parties to the prosecution.
UC President James B. Milliken said more than $500 million in UCLA grant cuts and raised a “destructive” existential threat to the university system. But he and the senior UC leader and the Regent’s negotiating team have avoided prosecution of the Trump administration.
Tuesday’s legal lawsuit represents frustrations from many UC employees over the speed of negotiations and closed states, which will impact the future of the top public university system in the United States.
“We do this because the UCLA administration hasn’t done that yet,” said Anna Markowitz, president of UCLA Markowitz.
“The goal is to put the UC administration in a position of strength and start taking its own actions to fight back. We certainly want them to join our lawsuit because we know they are under tremendous pressure from the federal government,” said Markowitz, associate professor at the UCLA School of Education and Information Studies.
The day after Milliken publicly warned of the “threat”, lawyers filed lawsuits against UC Los Angeles’ “near threats” as the Trump administration continued its investigation and across ten UC campus systems.
“The truth is that we are in unknown waters,” Milliken wrote in a message that was located on Monday at the University of California (UC)-wide. He said the university faces one of the “greatest threats” of its 157-year history in the conflict with Trump.
Union members and litigation supporters plan their first public meeting since mid-July on the UC San Francisco UC Board of Directors UC Board of Directors UC Board of Directors UC Board of Directors UC Board of Directors (UC) Board of Directors after Trump’s actions against UCLA multiplied by.
A key hearing will also be held Thursday in a separate UC-Trump case in the San Francisco Federal District Court. The case is UC San Francisco University of California and UC Berkeley A few months ago, the government canceled their personal grants.
U.S. District Court Judge Rita F. Lin ruled last month that the class action injunction requires the U.S. to release $81 million in freezing National Science Foundation grants to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). The hearing this week will focus on UCLA’s largest federal grant, about $500 million in NIH funding. = =
Tuesday’s 123-page complaints covered almost every aspect of the Trump administration’s competition against the University of California. While the lawsuit focuses on federal action against UCLA, it believes federal action on Westwood campus affects the entire UC system and that federal demand for UCLA remakes UCLA could affect a large number of UC employees. It also cites bursary cuts or campus changes on campus before UCLA shakedown.
In addition, the lawsuit alleges that the government violated the Administrative Procedures Act, which regulates the formulation of rules for administrative departments.
The lawsuit cites workers-faculty and doctoral degrees. Throughout the system, students and nurses face cuts in grants, reduced budgets, layoffs, and so-called restrictions on freedom of speech rights as UC leaders respond to federal directives and waste with race, diversity, sexual orientation and gender identity while trying to avoid gradual avoidance on campus by campus to avoid repeated $500 million in Trump grants, which is $500 million in Ulcla cat UCL.
These suspensions were conducted on allegations that UCLA had inadequately responded to complaints of anti-Semitism, but instead used race in admissions and did not follow Trump’s view that trans people should not be recognized by gender identity.
UCLA said it has made changes to improve the campus climate of the Jewish community and not use race in admissions. Prime Minister Julio Frenk said retired medical research is “powerless” to address allegations of discrimination. The university’s website and policies recognize different gender identities and serve the LGBTQ+ community.
Tuesday’s lawsuit said Trump is following a “plan for targeting, bullying and unconstitutional action” that focuses on “arbitrary, ideologically driven and illegal use of financial coercion” to achieve conservative “ideological advantages” for UC education, hospitals and laboratories across the state.
“Today, we join UC workers in opposing federal blackmail, unemployment, attacks on students, bans on speech and expression, and against any efforts to make UC great, the core public values of the president.”
The groups prosecuted include the faculty association on each campus as well as the UAW 4811 Academic Workers Union, the AFSCME 3299 Union – representing patient care technology and service staff – the California Nurses Association and several other organizations.
Among those who support the case, UCLA’s occupational therapist is at UCLA Ursula Quinn. Agreeing with the government’s proposed settlement at UCLA, “has devastating for researchers, healthcare workers and the UC community as a whole…We are already understaffed and underassetable. The money surrendering to Trump will send a terrible moral signal to those who work here and be able to work here and potentially impact patient care.”
UC leaders made it clear that they would not pay a $1.2 billion fine—called it “destructive” for all UCs—and said they would not serve all Californians in violation of UCLA’s mission or values. However, leaders provided the minimum information on how they would respond to the government’s August settlement proposal.
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