CALIFORNIA HEALTH CARE WORKERS PLAN 2-DAY UC STRIKE
In what would be the biggest strike in the history of the University of California, some 80,000 nurses and other health care professionals are planning a two-day strike for Nov. 17-18 over the failure of talks on a new contract. In addition to AFSCME Local 3299 representing health care and custodial workers and CWA Local 9119 representing health care and technical workers, the California Nurses Association will join with their fellow unions in a sympathy strike. The current contract expired Oct. 31.
Negotiations have been going on for nearly two years between UC medical facilities and Local 3299, and for 16 months with Local 9119. The strike will affect medical facilities at UC Berkeley, UCLA, UC Davis, and UC Santa Cruz among others in California.
The unions are protesting what they say is the refusal of the university to agree to a contract that meets the needs of the state’s affordability crisis and the need to fill the growing number of staff vacancies.
