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Stop Attacking Our Benefits! UCSF AFSCME 3299 Workers Strike UCSF

by Labor Video Project
Hundreds of UCSF AFSCME 3299 service workers joined the picket line to defend their pensions and wages against the UC Regents who are fighting them
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Thousands of AFSCME 3299 UCSF and UC workers went on strike on May 7, 2018 at Parnassus campus. The workers are demanding an end to contracting out, attacks on pensions and starvation wages. Many workers have to commute into the UCSF campus costing a serious part of the income. Many of the UC Regents are millionaires and billionaires and executives at UCSF have been getting $100,000 bonuses according to the workers.
There is a major plan to also outsource the work at UC to lower paid workers without workers protections.
Last year 65 tech workers at UC were outsourced by the management and replace by workers from India at much lower wages increasing the profits of UCSF.
Additional media:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkmeKgyvBI4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htslfoHPWvY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iE_V9C82I_g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FdXzEOYy0I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ne1aN2_K7Y4
Production of Labor Video Project
http://www.laborvideo.org
§Workers Solidarity Rally
by Labor Video Project
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Other unions joined the solidarity rally.
§UC AFSCME 3299 Marchers With T-Shirt flag
by Labor Video Project
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The strike picket line in front of UCSF Parnassus campus.
§UCSF Hospital Made Over $150 Million
by Labor Video Project
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While the "non-profit" UCSF hospital made over $150 million last year the high paid managers want workers to give concessions.
§Striker On The Line
by Labor Video Project
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Workers talked about the understaffing and the stress at the hospital which threatens the health and safety of them and the patients.
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UC billionaire regent Richard Blum who is married to US Senator Diane Feinstein has been pushing privatization of the UC pension system including getting rid of defined pension benefits and instead forcing them into 401c's controlled by these same trustees.
They also are giving high paid executives bonuses for outsourcing the work of the university.
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