Strike News: Lecturer Work Stoppage Scheduled for This Week

From the Bruin: Members of a University of California lecturers’ union will go on strike across all campuses Wednesday and Thursday. University Council-American Federation of Teachers, the labor union that represents more than 6,800 UC lecturers and other part-time faculty, announced that 91% of members voted to authorize an unfair labor practice strike. Strikes will begin at 10 a.m. at each UC campus.

According to the union’s website, UC-AFT decided to go on strike because of the UC allegedly violating state labor laws after more than two years of bargaining for improved salaries and fairer workload standards.

The union has filed seven unfair labor practice charges in the past 20 months over issues including the UC Office of the President refusing to participate in good faith in state-sponsored impasse procedures and to bargain about paid family leaves...

Full story at https://dailybruin.com/2021/11/14/lecturers-to-strike-for-unfair-labor-practices-across-uc-campuses.

As we have noted previously, the ultimate determination of whether a strike is an unfair labor practice strike (a protest against an employer unfair labor practice as defined in state law) as opposed to an economic strike (where the issue is wages and working conditions) is in the hands of the Public Employment Relations Board - PERB. The former provides more legal protection to strikers than the latter.