Representatives from the Mills Staff Union address the Board of Trustees to call for transparency and action to support Mills students and workforce. On April 22nd, the Mills College Board of Trustees held a listening session, inviting members of the Mills community to speak to their concerns regarding the Board’s…

OAKLAND, CALIF — On Friday, March 26 a grassroots movement of Mills students, alums, and workers will rally at the Richards Gate entryway of Mills College at 4 pm to demand that the College’s Board of Trustees reverse their decision to close the school in 2023.The Save Mills movement, comprised…

The Mills Staff Union defends Oakland workers’ legal rights and wins additional pandemic protections in its negotiations with the College. When Mills staff voted last March in overwhelming support of forming a union, few could have predicted that one short week after our union was won, the Bay Area would…

Wednesday, July 15, 2020 — Secretary Betsy DeVos, We, the Mills Staff Union, write to you to express our opposition to the regulatory ban proposed by the Department of Higher Education that would bar nearly half a million undocumented students, including those in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, and others, from receiving…

Friday, June 19, 2020 — Dear Superintendent Johnson-Trammell and Oakland School Board Directors, We, the Mills College Staff Union, write to you in solidarity with Black Organizing Project’s (BOP) coalition of students, teachers, parents, and community members urging the Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) to eliminate OUSD police from our public schools. We respectfully request…

Monday, June 22nd, 2020 — President Hillman, The Mills Staff Union recognizes that this is a difficult time financially for the College, as it is for its workers. We are all looking to the beginning of the fiscal year and the coming academic year with extreme anxiety for our students, for ourselves, and for the College as…