Press Release: November 17, 2022

UC ULP STRIKE UPDATE: DAY FOUR Berkeley, CA – Strikers will rally across the state today, with numbers exceeding turnout on Days 1, 2 and 3. UC claimed that paying wages that lift workers out of the federal classification of ‘Rent Burden’ – i.e., being...

Press Release: November 15, 2022

UC ULP STRIKE UPDATE: DAY TWO Berkeley, CA – Classrooms and research labs remained shuttered across UC’s ten campuses and the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab today as strikers hit the picket line for a second day. Solidarity poured in from professors who refused...

Press Release: Monday, Nov. 14, 2022 PM

UC ULP STRIKE UPDATE: DAY ONE Berkeley, CA – Today was historic – tens of thousands of academic workers across all ten UC campuses and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory shut down their classrooms and research labs this morning, walking off the job and onto...

Press Release: Monday, Nov. 14, 2022

AS LARGEST STRIKE IN THE COUNTRY UNFOLDS ACROSS ALL TEN UC CAMPUSES, LEGISLATORS CALL ON UC TO BARGAIN IN GOOD FAITH 36 State Legislators sent letters to Michael Drake, President of UC, urging the university to bargain in good faith.  Berkeley, CA – 48,000...

Press Release: Saturday, Nov. 12, 2022

**MONDAY AT UCSD** CAL FED’S LORENA GONZALEZ FLETCHER TO BE JOINED BY SAN DIEGO IMPERIAL LABOR COUNCIL’S BRIGITTE BROWNING AND BoS CHAIR FLETCHER IN SUPPORT OF 48,000 UNION WORKERS POISED TO STRIKE AT UC Officials will stand shoulder to shoulder with workers as the...

Press Release: Nov. 4, 2022

UC ULP STRIKE DATE SET FOR NOVEMBER 14 “After months at the bargaining table and 26 Unfair Labor Practices filed, we have no choice but to move towards a strike,” said Jade Moore, a Postdoc and bargaining team member.  Berkeley, CA – Tens of thousands of Academic...