Labor

Last fall, the UCLA FA spearheaded a broader Council of UC Faculty Associations effort to submit an Unfair Labor Practice charge regarding the UC’s handling of protest and strike activity on campus last spring. Now, the Public Employee Relations Board (PERB) has issued a complaint against the UC, finding merit in our charges that UC violated our labor rights and taking them to the next step in the legal process! This is a significant win in the fight for faculty rights on UC campuses. Stay tuned for more updates on how we will use this victory to protect our rights…

AFSCME Local 3299, the union representing 37,000 Service and Patient Care workers at the UC, is conducting a statewide Unfair Labor Practices strike this week over bad faith bargaining and interference with workers’ free speech rights. UPTE-CWA Local 9119 (University Professional and Technical Employees), the union representing 20,000 UC employees including nurse case managers, mental health counselors, optometrists, pharmacists, physical therapists, clinical researchers, IT analysts and animal health technicians, are on strike in response to repressive limitations the UC is placing on employee and union free speech. AFSCME and UPTE are asking all community members to not purchase products (including…