The UC UPTE AFSCME Strike & Palestine: Connecting the War on UC Workers with the Genocide

Sixty thousand members of CWA UPTE and AFSCME 3299 went on an unfair labor practice
strike against the UC management and Regents. UC has been engaged on a union busting
campaign against the workers and unions over their fight for living wages and proper and
safe staffing at the University and UC hospitals. Joining in support of the strike were UPTE
Members For Palestine who had educational events on the connection between the strike
issues and Palestine at both the UCSF Parnassus and Mission Bay campuses.

On February 28, 2025, an educational was held by by the committee at UC Mission Bay
campus and the UPTE officials tried to prevent an announcement about the educational
and also used the sound system to block out the educational. The union bureaucracy said that they would not connect the billions spent by the US on genocide with the attack on workers at UC. They also censored a resolution passed by the Local defending Palestinian workers and opposing the relationship with the Zionist corporate trade Histadrut which is supporting the genocide and giving funding to the IDF.

Also SFSU professor Rabab Abdulhadi who is a member of the California Faculty Association
CFA and director of the Arab & Muslim Ethnicities & Diasporas program spoke in solidarity with the striking workers and their unions. The CFA members are also under attack by the CSU management and trustees and face thousands of layoffs. The Newsom appointed board of Trustees and their handpicked CSU presidents are butchering the CSU system laying off thousands of faculty members and closing departments.

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