Solidarity with University of California Staff Set to Strike January 10

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Teamsters Local 2010 is the Union of 14,000 hard-working employees throughout the University of California system.  We are affiliated with the 1.4 million members of the Teamsters Union across the United States and Canada.

Together we are building a strong Union with the power to win better wages, benefits, and working conditions.  We strive to protect workers’ rights through capable, determined labor representation.

Join us in our fight for a better workplace and the preservation of the working and middle class.

All across the state, UC Teamsters are preparing for an effective strike on Tuesday, January 10, in protest of the University’s unfair treatment. When we stand together and withhold our labor for the day, we show the University our power and our value to this institution, because they don’t have a University without our work.

We’ve got their attention, and now UC is trying to trick us out of participating in the strike, so they can continue to treat us unfairly and underpay us.

They’re saying we shouldn’t strike because we should “prioritize” the University, patients and students.  How insulting!  We prioritize the University by working hard year after year, yet the University has failed to “prioritize” us.  UC has driven down our real wages by 24% over the last two decades, and now refuses to bargain in good faith for fair raises, showing that UC does not care that workers are not paid enough to live.

They’re trying to scare us by suggesting that our strike is unlawful, even though they know very well that the strike is lawful and protected.  If UC really thought the strike was unlawful, they would have asked the state for an injunction to stop it – but they did not.  They did seek an injunction against the UCLA skilled trades strike, arguing that strike is unlawful.  The state refused to issue an injunction, and refused to find the skilled trades strike unlawful.  That’s because both the UCLA skilled trades strike and the statewide CX strike are lawful and protected.
Here are the facts:

• The California Supreme Court and the Public Employment Relations Board have ruled repeatedly that California higher education employees have the right to strike.[1]
• Employees have the right to strike to protest the employer’s unfair labor practices, as we are doing in this strike.[2]
• Strikers cannot be disciplined or otherwise retaliated against for participating in the strike, nor may the University attempt to interfere with our right to strike.[3]  The Teamsters will take appropriate legal action in response to any such retaliation or interference.

Now is the time for every UC Teamster to stand together with our co-workers by participating in the strike.  That’s how we will have the power to get UC to bargain in good faith and pay workers enough to live! 

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ALSO: More than 600 plumbers, electricians and other workers, members of Teamsters Local 2010, will be on strike against the University of California, Los Angeles for January 6-10 over what the Teamsters union calls unfair and illegal labor practices.