Bill Allison and Larry Conrad are finally out. Seeing them removed confirms that we do not have to accept a culture of harassment in our own departments. We won this together and now we focus on rebuilding a workplace where everyone is respected.
June 3, 2018
Final supporters
We, the undersigned, call on the entire UCB campus community - but especially Chancellor Christ - to demand that upper managers Bill Allison and Larry Conrad, who perpetuated workplace harassment and a culture of sexism in the UCB IT Dept., be held accountable for their actions.
We will no longer allow disrespect, misogyny and sexism to rule the day at UCB. Bad actors throughout the US have been stepping down from positions of power they don’t deserve in recent months; we think it’s time Bill Allison and Larry Conrad joined them.
Our message is clear: Time’s up for bad behavior—misogyny will not be tolerated at our university. Let’s clear the way for systemic change. Allison and Conrad need to go now.
(This petition was created and is being circulated by the University Professional and Technical Employees - UPTE-CWA 9119 representing 14,000 IT and other Technical, Research and Health Care workers at the University of California)
Updates
March 15, 2018
Seeing this kind of energy building reminds me exactly why I started this fight. It is hard to keep quiet when I see my colleagues pushed aside by the very people who should be supporting them. We are finally proving that their culture of silence does not have the final say here.
Reached 100 supporters
March 15, 2018
59 Comments
As an alumni, I want UC Berkeley to be an institution that I can be proud of on all levels. Accountability for workplace harassment is absolutely essential. This is a basic step that needs to be taken.
As a long-time dev in academia, I am hugely disappointed to hear this is happening at UCB. The Academic IT community needs to come together to make sure it doesn't happen anymore, and that means removing people who allowed it.
Thanks to Vanessa and everyone who's ever tried to navigate the reporting process for discrimination or harassment at UC Berkeley. And to UPTE for speaking up in support of a more diverse and inclusive workforce.
It's about time that the sexist culture that persists in probably too many of the departments at Berkeley is addressed, and that those who perpetrate it and allow it to continue are held to account. It is a very psychologically damaging situation.
Its important for UC to offer an unbiased and confidential place to report such issues, and to recognize that there are many ways -- often subtle -- for people to be denied access and equal opportunity in the workplace. There MUST be a route for intervention.
According to the New York Post’s story, Hunter Biden in 2015 introduced his Father, then VP in the Obama Administration, to a Top Exec Vadym Pozharskyi at Ukrainian Burisma Holdings Ltd after Hunter joined the company’s board which was Paying him up to $83,000 a Month. The insinuation is that Hunter Successfully Influenced his Father to Pressure Ukraine Government officials “into Firing the Prosecutor Viktor Shokin, who was Investigating Corruption against Burisma. Facebook and Twitter took action to limit distribution (censored) the New York Post story citing Emails purportedly Revealing Evidence of Influence-Peddling by Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden. The Emails were obtained from a Laptop which had a sticker from the Beau Biden Foundation, and had been Abandoned at Computer-Repair Shop, named “The Mac Shop” in Wilmington, Delaware and owned by John Paul Mac Isaac, who then reported the laptop’s contents to authorities which determined that the laptop and hard drive contain fruits of criminal activity. Joe Biden and his family engaged in "Legal Corruption" despite claims of no wrongdoing and the Liberal Main Stream Media Refuses to Talk and will never Report about Hunter Biden’s laptop and emails, fearing Democratic Presidential Nominee Joe Biden will Lose the 2020 Election if this information is exposed to the American People. This is evidence that Joe Biden participated in his Family’s CASH-for-Influence Scheme with Shady Foreign Companies. The American People should be demanding that the Media investigate this scandal before they VOTE, but we know, the Media will never report on Hunter Biden’s emails because it would be harmful to Joe Biden.
Please do not permit workplace harassment.
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Bill Allison and Larry Conrad are finally out. Seeing them removed confirms that we do not have to accept a culture of harassment in our own departments. We won this together and now we focus on rebuilding a workplace where everyone is respected.
June 3, 2018
Final supporters
We, the undersigned, call on the entire UCB campus community - but especially Chancellor Christ - to demand that upper managers Bill Allison and Larry Conrad, who perpetuated workplace harassment and a culture of sexism in the UCB IT Dept., be held accountable for their actions.
We will no longer allow disrespect, misogyny and sexism to rule the day at UCB. Bad actors throughout the US have been stepping down from positions of power they don’t deserve in recent months; we think it’s time Bill Allison and Larry Conrad joined them.
Our message is clear: Time’s up for bad behavior—misogyny will not be tolerated at our university. Let’s clear the way for systemic change. Allison and Conrad need to go now.
(This petition was created and is being circulated by the University Professional and Technical Employees - UPTE-CWA 9119 representing 14,000 IT and other Technical, Research and Health Care workers at the University of California)
Updates
March 15, 2018
Seeing this kind of energy building reminds me exactly why I started this fight. It is hard to keep quiet when I see my colleagues pushed aside by the very people who should be supporting them. We are finally proving that their culture of silence does not have the final say here.
Reached 100 supporters
March 15, 2018
59 Comments
As an alumni of UC Berkeley's engineering departments, I'm not at all happy with the presence of misogyny in science, technology, and engineering spaces, and am happy to support the ousting of those who perpetuate it, particularly those in positions of power.
As an alumni, I want UC Berkeley to be an institution that I can be proud of on all levels. Accountability for workplace harassment is absolutely essential. This is a basic step that needs to be taken.
As a long-time dev in academia, I am hugely disappointed to hear this is happening at UCB. The Academic IT community needs to come together to make sure it doesn't happen anymore, and that means removing people who allowed it.
Thanks to Vanessa and everyone who's ever tried to navigate the reporting process for discrimination or harassment at UC Berkeley. And to UPTE for speaking up in support of a more diverse and inclusive workforce.
It's about time that the sexist culture that persists in probably too many of the departments at Berkeley is addressed, and that those who perpetrate it and allow it to continue are held to account. It is a very psychologically damaging situation.
Its important for UC to offer an unbiased and confidential place to report such issues, and to recognize that there are many ways -- often subtle -- for people to be denied access and equal opportunity in the workplace. There MUST be a route for intervention.
According to the New York Post’s story, Hunter Biden in 2015 introduced his Father, then VP in the Obama Administration, to a Top Exec Vadym Pozharskyi at Ukrainian Burisma Holdings Ltd after Hunter joined the company’s board which was Paying him up to $83,000 a Month. The insinuation is that Hunter Successfully Influenced his Father to Pressure Ukraine Government officials “into Firing the Prosecutor Viktor Shokin, who was Investigating Corruption against Burisma. Facebook and Twitter took action to limit distribution (censored) the New York Post story citing Emails purportedly Revealing Evidence of Influence-Peddling by Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden. The Emails were obtained from a Laptop which had a sticker from the Beau Biden Foundation, and had been Abandoned at Computer-Repair Shop, named “The Mac Shop” in Wilmington, Delaware and owned by John Paul Mac Isaac, who then reported the laptop’s contents to authorities which determined that the laptop and hard drive contain fruits of criminal activity. Joe Biden and his family engaged in "Legal Corruption" despite claims of no wrongdoing and the Liberal Main Stream Media Refuses to Talk and will never Report about Hunter Biden’s laptop and emails, fearing Democratic Presidential Nominee Joe Biden will Lose the 2020 Election if this information is exposed to the American People. This is evidence that Joe Biden participated in his Family’s CASH-for-Influence Scheme with Shady Foreign Companies. The American People should be demanding that the Media investigate this scandal before they VOTE, but we know, the Media will never report on Hunter Biden’s emails because it would be harmful to Joe Biden.
Please do not permit workplace harassment.
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As an alumni of UC Berkeley's engineering departments, I'm not at all happy with the presence of misogyny in science, technology, and engineering spaces, and am happy to support the ousting of those who perpetuate it, particularly those in positions of power.