UC’s largest employee union to vote on potential strike

From Riverside Press-Enterprise: Fearing for their job security as more positions are outsourced, the University of California‘s largest employee union says its members will vote next month on whether to strike for the second time this year.

Leaders with the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, Local 3299 made the announcement at Wednesday’s U.C. Board of Regents meeting in Oakland amid stalled labor negotiations. The AFSCME represents more than 25,000 service and patient care technical workers at UC’s 10 campuses, five medical centers, numerous clinics, research laboratories and UC Hastings College of Law...

The vote — set for Oct. 9 and 10 — follows a three-day walkout by 53,000 UC workers last May over the University’s outsourcing practices. The union claims the move is fueling income, gender, and racial inequality within the UC workforce.

The unionized workers cover a wide swath of occupations. Service workers include security guards, groundskeepers, cooks, custodians and truck drivers, among others. Patient care workers include such jobs as nursing aides, respiratory therapists, radiology technologists and patient transporters...

Full story at https://www.pe.com/2018/09/26/ucs-largest-employee-union-to-vote-on-potential-strike/

Note: A strike vote does not mean there will be a strike. It is part of the negotiations process.