The Community Service Commission of the Undergraduate Students Association Council hosted the second annual Servocacy Fest on Wednesday. The afternoon event, which was held in Wilson Plaza, was designed to connect students with more than 35 volunteering and service-based organizations.
Dozens of UC employees gathered outside a UC Board of Regents meeting at Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center to call for higher wages. The rally, put on by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 3299 – which represents more than 30,000 UC service workers and skilled craft workers – called for minimum wages of $25 per hour, said Frank Valdez, the strategic communications director for AFSCME Local 3299.