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DESCRIPTION:Our ULP Committee has called for a STRIKE for Service and Patient Care 
 members to protest against UC’s Serial Lawbreaking! UC has deployed an 
 unlawful campaign of intimidation in an attempt to stop us from fighting 
 for what we deserve! We refuse to be silenced in our ongoing fight for big 
 raises that address inflation, affordable healthcare, and housing 
 benefits.\n\nWednesday, Feb 26 – Thursday, Feb 27, 2025\nPicket lines 
 start at 6 AM – 4PM\n\nStrike itself begins at midnight (12AM) on 
 February 26th and ends at 11:59 PM on February 27th.\n\n\nIf you’re UCI 
 — Los Alamitos, Lakewood, Placentia, and Fountain Valley, report to the 
 UCI Med Center location.\n\nIf you’re UCSF – St. Francis or St. 
 Mary’s please report to either UCSF Parnassus or Mission Bay. Don’t 
 want to cross the bridge? That’s ok, please report to the UCB line 
 instead or whatever is closest to your home address.\n\n\nFor Immediate 
 Release:  February 14, 2025\n\nCONTACT: Todd Stenhouse, 
 toddstenhouse@gmail.com, 916-397-1131\n\nUC Service and Patient Care 
 Workers Will Mount Statewide Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) Strike, February 
 26th-27th\n\n“UC’s serial law breaking stands in the way of 
 constructive negotiations,” union says\n\n \n\nCALIFORNIA –After filing 
 a new round of Unfair Labor Practice charges alleging that the University 
 of California has illegally attempted to silence workers from protesting, 
 leafleting, picketing, striking and otherwise expressing concerns about 
 declining real wages and rising staff vacancies, AFSCME Local 3299 
 represented UC Service and Patient Care workers have announced that they 
 will mount a second statewide ULP Strike over bad faith bargaining and 
 interference with workers’ rights on February 26-27th.  The strike 
 affects more than 37,000 UC workers, and will occur at all ten university 
 campuses and five medical centers.\n\n“Instead of addressing the decline 
 in real wages that has fueled the staff exodus at UC Medical Centers and 
 Campuses at the bargaining table, UC has chosen to illegally implement 
 arbitrary rules aimed at silencing workers who are raising concerns while 
 limiting their access to union representatives,” said AFSCME Local 3299 
 President Michael Avant.  “UC’s blatantly illegal actions are standing 
 in the way of constructive negotiations on the acute affordability crisis 
 plaguing its frontline employees, and that’s why workers will exercise 
 their legal right to strike.”\n\nWhile UC has granted massive raises and 
 hundreds of millions of dollars in housing assistance to its highest paid 
 employees over the past four years, more than 13,000 AFSCME 3299 
 represented UC service and patient care workers—more than a third of 
 these vital workforce segments—have left the university as their real 
 wages have declined and the cost of living skyrocketed.  Instead of 
 bargaining solutions, the University has imposed new rules that limit 
 employees’ ability to speak out under threat of discipline or 
 arrest.\n\n“By refusing to bargain in good faith, the University has made 
 it clear that it does not value the frontline workers who clean its 
 facilities, serve food, and treat patients,” said AFSCME Local 3299 
 President Michael Avant. “UC’s efforts to illegally silence dissent 
 from workers who are struggling the most is suggestive of an effort to 
 concentrate even more power and wealth for its ivory tower elites.  This is 
 not a solution to the workforce supply and affordability problems facing 
 this institution, but a glaring symptom of the problem that is driving 
 workers onto picket lines.”\n\nAFSCME Local 3299 has been working to 
 negotiate successor contracts for more than 37,000 service and patient care 
 workers for nearly a year.  The existing contract for Patient Care workers 
 expired on July 31st, and the contract for Service workers expired on 
 October 31st.\n\nIn 2023, the UC CFO Nathan Brostrom told the UC Board of 
 Regents that the university’s staff vacancy rate had tripled since before 
 the pandemic.   Research has since detailed a decline in real wages and a 
 growing housing affordability crisis plaguing the university’s frontline 
 health and service workforce, leaving many to endure multi-hour commutes, 
 or sleep in their cars.  The share of this workforce that would be income 
 eligible for limited government housing subsidies has nearly tripled since 
 2017\n\n“UC’s continued unlawful actions hurt both the workers it 
 routinely praised as ‘heroes’ during the pandemic, and the students and 
 patients we are here to serve,” added Local 3299’s ULP Committee Chair 
 Monica Martinez.  “It is past time for the university to change course, 
 to respect the rights of the frontline workers who make this institution 
 run and to finally bargain in good faith.”\n\nAFSCME Local 3299 will be 
 announcing picket times and locations for its systemwide ULP strike next 
 week.\n\n***\n\nAFSCME Local 3299 represents more than 37,000 Service and 
 Patient Care Technical workers at UC’s 10 campuses, 5 medical centers, 
 numerous clinics, & research laboratories. \n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/02/24/18873699.php
SUMMARY:UC AFSCME 3299 & CWU UPTE to Strike
LOCATION:UC Parnassus Hospital & UC Mission Campus
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/02/24/18873699.php
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