Next bargaining session July 8–9:
UC stonewalls, recruitment crisis deepens

Tuesday, July 8, and Wednesday, July 9, will be our 13th bargaining session, and UC is refusing to provide a bargaining location at either UC Berkeley or UC San Francisco. We are looking into alternative locations in the Bay Area.

After more than a year of bargaining, why is UC not doing its part to reach a fair agreement that addresses the recruitment and retention crisis?

The most recent state budget has restored UC's expected funding completely—and thus far, no major federal funding cuts have been made. Yet UC continues to use uncertainty as an excuse to dig in their heels on the same unfair proposals they made a year ago.

We hope that incoming UC President James B. Milliken will recognize that our demands are reasonable and that now is the time to settle a contract that will end the recruitment and retention crisis

UC offers a pay proposal that would leave us 5% behind UC nurses in 2025—and has no raises or steps in 2028.

We are all too aware of the consequences of accepting their proposals: more of our colleagues would leave, patient wait times would increase, and the quality of care, research, and education would continue to decline.

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UPTE-CWA 9119 is the union of professional and technical employees at the University of California.

UPTE was founded in 1990 by a group of employees who believed that UC workers would benefit from a union to safeguard and expand our rights. In 1993, UPTE members voted to affiliate with the Communications Workers of America (CWA), a 700,000-member union in the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), the largest federation of unions in the United States, to better represent our members.