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Top Berkeley news: UC Berkeley ordered to pay back student workers; a look back at Prohibition; more

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Published on January 17, 2020
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UC Berkeley ordered to pay student workers who'd been underpaid for years

An arbitrator has ordered UC Berkeley to retroactively pay student instructors who had been underpaid for years, a total that could reach several million dollars. The university must also end the practice now, according to a union representing the students.

Read the full story on KQED.

Berkeley, a Look Back: Town goes under influence of Prohibition

Prohibition went into effect a hundred years ago in the United States, at midnight on Jan. 16, 1920.

Read the full story on East Bay Times.

Berkeley development to hold lottery for 6 below-market condominiums

Some much-needed new condominiums will soon be available for sale in Berkeley. Because of the city’s affordable housing mandate, some of them will carry an amazingly low price.

Read the full story on CBS San Francisco.

A private equity firm wants to buy ‘.org’ for $1 billion. A Berkeley-based cooperative says, ‘Not so fast.’

The suffix that most people absentmindedly type when they’re donating to an animal shelter or joining a synagogue or reading a research paper is for sale.

Read the full story on Berkeleyside.


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