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DESCRIPTION:FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE\n\nUC Davis Students, Contracted Out Workers Rally 
 \nfor Affordable Health Care, Fair Wages, Respect\n\nUCD is the Last of all 
 10 UC Campuses and 5 Medical Centers to Still Contract Out Food Service 
 Workers\n\nDavis, March 1 2007-  Hundreds of UC Davis contracted out 
 workers and their supporters will rally at the University of California 
 Davis to demand university jobs with the same benefits, wages and respect 
 that all UC employees receive. \n\nFaced with excessive health insurance 
 costs and poverty wages, contracted out employees work within feet of 
 university workers who benefit from the more affordable health care, higher 
 wages, union representation, and respect that comes along with UC 
 employment. “It’s just not fair, we work so hard for this school but we 
 are not respected” says Lidia Uribe, a cook with seven years of service, 
 “People know that I work at the university but what they don’t 
 understand is that I don’t work for the UC. But I deserve to.”\n\nIn 
 recent years, contracted out food service workers at UCLA, UC Santa Cruz, 
 and UC Irvine have successfully campaigned to become University employees. 
 The UC Davis campus is the last of the UC systems 10 campuses and 5 medical 
 centers, including UCD Medical Center in Sacramento, to still contract out 
 food service. Currently, UC Davis contracts out over 550 food service and 
 custodial jobs to private companies including French food service provider 
 Sodexho. \n\nThe workers have gained the support of various community 
 leaders. “UC Davis has a responsibility to provide fair benefits and a 
 living wage to all its employees, whether or not they are subcontracted.” 
 says Davis City Councilmember and UC Davis alumnus Lamar Heystek, one of 
 the scheduled speakers at the rally. \n\nThursday’s rally is the first 
 public demonstration by the workers who intend to show the university the 
 support they have and to make their demands clear to UC administration they 
 deserve university jobs. \n\nThe American Federation of State, County, and 
 Municipal Employees Local 3299 is the union of 18,000 service and patient 
 care workers throughout the UC system. In the past few years AFSCME has 
 eliminated contracted out food service work at UCLA, UC Santa Cruz, UC 
 Merced, UC San Francisco, UCSD and UC Irvine, ensuring that the UC is 
 accountable to the communities they are in by providing workers with the 
 significantly improved wages and more affordable health care benefits that 
 come with direct University employment and Union representation. 
 \n\nWhat:	Public demonstration supporting workers’ demand to become 
 direct University employees \nWhen:	Thursday March 1st: march from Memorial 
 Union Patio at 11:15am, rally at Mrak Hall at 11:45am, ending at 
 12:30pm\nWhere:	UC Davis Campus on the Memorial Union (MU) Patio, Mrak 
 Hall\n(Please see attached map)\n#               #              #\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/02/28/18370109.php
SUMMARY:UC Davis Students, Contracted Out Workers Rally
LOCATION:Thursday March 1st: march from Memorial Union Patio at 11:15am, rally at 
 Mrak Hall at 11:45am, ending at 12:30pm\nUC Davis Campus on the Memorial 
 Union (MU) Patio, Mrak Hall\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/02/28/18370109.php
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