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Support UC Berkeley's Campus Workers!

by Berkeley Global Justice (blackbearcollective [at] riseup.net)
On April 14, campus workers will go on strike to fight for their rights and for a fair contract.
-Please Forward Widely-

**PRECARITY Screening to Benefit the AFSCME Strike
Tuesday, April 12, 7PM
102 Wurster (UC Berkeley)
$3-15 sliding scale (no one turned away, campus workers free)

**Student/Community Flying Picket
meet at 12 noon at the AFSCME rally, form at the end of the rally
Sproul Plaza (UC Berkeley)

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On Thursday, April 14, AFSCME Local 3299, is planning a one-day strike. AFSCME represents service employees vital to the functioning of UC Berkeley. It represents many of the lowest paid workers on campus. The union is currently struggling for a fair contract and workers' (especially immigrant workers') rights.

Show your solidarity with campus workers! DON'T CROSS THE PICKET LINES ON APRIL 14!

Join us on TUESDAY, APRIL 12, 7PM AT 102 WURSTER (UC BERKELEY) for a SCREENING OF THE MOVIE PRECARITY TO BENEFIT THE AFSCME STRIKE. PRECARITY is a collection of films documenting the struggle of precarious workers around the world.

On THURSDAY, APRIL 14, join us for a student and community FLYING PICKET. We will MEET AT NOON AT THE AFSCME RALLY ON SPROUL PLAZA. The flying picket will be a mobile contingent that will reinforce stationary pickets and take other forms of action in solidarity with striking workers. We will form the flying picket at the end of the noon AFSCME rally.

Email blackbearcollective [at] riseup.net for more info.

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by UC Worker
The AFSCME website says nothing about the strike.

I sent AFSCME an email yesterday requesting information regarding the strike (why, history, etc), and have recieved no response.

I googled "AFSCME UC strike", and came up with letters from the UC's warning about the strike, some articles about there being a strike... but precious little about the particulars of why and what led to it.
...and nothing from AFSCME explaining their side of it.

If they can't be bothered to provide information supporting their cause, why should I honor their picket line?

My decision to cross the line or not will not be made based on a 2 minute reading of something handed to me on my way into the building, and unless I find more information on it tonight I won't be honoring the line.

I am not alone among UC workers in this feeling this way.

by A UC Berkeley student
Not that you're really a UC worker, because all the UC workers I've talked to (more than a few) know about and support the strike.

But here's two links anyway.

http://www.afscme3299.org/april2005news/?sel=TRUE

http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/04/1732876.php
by Black Bear Collective (blackbearcollective [at] riseup.net)
STUDENT AND COMMUNITY SOLIDARITY ACTION WITH STRIKING UNIVERSITY WORKERS

On Thursday, April 14, AFSCME Local 3299, is planning a one-day strike on
all nine University of California (UC) campuses.

AFSCME represents thousands of service employees vital to the day-to-day
functioning of the UC system. The workers going on strike are some of the
lowest paid on each campus - custodians, gardeners, food service workers,
etc. They are going on strike for immigrant workers' rights and for a
decent contract and living wages. Other campus workers - clerical workers,
technical workers, graduate student instructor's, etc. (and their
associated unions) - will also be supporting the strike.

SHOW YOUR SOLIDARITY WITH CAMPUS WORKERS!
DON'T CROSS THE PICKET LINES ON APRIL 14!

Student and Community Flying Solidarity Picket

On THURSDAY, APRIL 14, join us for a student and community FLYING PICKET.
We will MEET AT NOON AT THE AFSCME RALLY ON SPROUL PLAZA. The flying
picket will be a mobile contingent that will reinforce stationary pickets
and take other forms of action in solidarity with striking workers. We
will form the flying picket at the end of the noon AFSCME rally.

We will MAKE OUR WAY TO INTERNATIONAL HOUSE (Bancroft and Piedmont)
AROUND 4 PM and join striking workers to "greet" the new chancellor at
his INAUGURATION PARTY AT 4 PM. We will make make sure he knows that we
are willing to take action in solidarity with campus workers.

In Solidarity,
Black Bear Collective
Bay Area Anarchist Council
Email blackbearcollective [at] riseup.net for more info.
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