More Than Budget: UC Opposes Bill Related to Collective Bargaining of RAs on Its Promotional Website

To the left is a partial screenshot of a page from the "UC for California" website http://www.ucforcalifornia.org.  The site has a page urging readers to oppose a bill related to collective bargaining for graduate research assistants.  It is being promoted by a mass emailing coming from advocacy@support.ucla.edu.  This step appears to be a departure from the earlier use of the website aimed primarily at budget issues for UC and support of efforts to increase state budget allocations for the university.

The webpage on the left, by the way, doesn't seem to work properly in Chrome.  I had to use Firefox to get a readable view.  So in more than one way, it does not seem to be a well thought out effort.  Getting more funding for UC is an obvious topic that all UC constituents can get behind.  Other issues that are of concern to some constituents may be controversial for others.

Is anyone in charge here? UC's administration has lots of ways of getting its views out through media releases and the UCOP official website.  Using a website aimed at promoting funding for UC for anything beyond the budget seems like a dumb idea.

Dumb-da-dumb-dumb: