...Roughly 25,000 University of California workers represented by AFSCME 3299 voted to authorize their leaders to call strikes, as needed. The union’s ranks include service workers such as custodians, gardeners, food service workers and facilities maintenance staff, as well as health care workers such as medical transcribers, phlebotomists, admitting clerks and respiratory therapists.
AFSCME 3299 is a local chapter of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, the largest trade union of public employees in the United States. Workers will be setting up picket lines at UC campuses and medical centers around the state...
The California Public Employment Relations Board requires that AFSCME 3299 provide a specified number of employees to meet emergency-care needs at UC hospitals. UC also maintains contracts with contingency staffing agencies to limit the impact on care...
On affected campuses, students may see a lag in some services, but UC officials said in a statement released Tuesday that they “will do everything possible to limit the negative impact of this strike on our campuses and medical centers as well as our students and patients.” Motorists near UC campuses and hospitals may experience some traffic delays as picketers take their protests to the streets...
AFSCME 3299’s leader and rank-and-file members have told The Sacramento Bee that the UC is using illegal tactics to outsource work that should be performed university employees...
Full story at https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/health-and-medicine/article237305849.html
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