UC’s unfair labor practices and hiring freeze only exacerbate the staffing crisis impacting patients and students. Join thousands of University of California workers on the picket lines May 1 to protest unfair labor practices and defend public healthcare, research, education, and workers’ rights!

UPTE-represented workers across the University of California system are striking over UC’s unfair labor practices, including the University’s imposition of a systemwide hiring freeze, which would further undermine patient care, research, and education across the state. UC knows what it has to do to avoid further strikes—end its unfair labor practices and bargain in good faith with all UPTE members over our proposals to end the recruitment and retention crisis.

Find a picket line near you!

  • Members from UC Berkeley/​UCOP and LBNL will be traveling to Sacramento for a march and rally at the Capitol. We will leave from the UC Berkeley Crescent Lawn at 8 am on buses to Sacramento. The buses will arrive back in Berkeley at 3 pm.

    • May 1, from 9:30 am to 2 pm: John C Fremont Park, 1515 Q St, Sacramento, CA 95814

    Members from UC Davis will be traveling to Sacramento for a march and rally at the Capitol. For those who need it, UPTE will provide shuttles from campus and the hospital to John C Fremont Park. RSVP to reserve your spot.

    • May 1 from 8 am to 1 pm: UCI Health — Fountain Valley, 17100 Euclid St, Fountain Valley, CA 92708

    • May 1, from 8 am to 1 pm: Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, 757 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095

    • May 1, from 8 am to 2 pm: Near the Bellevue Lot UC Merced, Corner of Bellevue Road and North Lake Road Merced, CA 95343

    • May 1, from 8 am to 2 pm: UC Riverside Arts Building, 900 University Ave #232, Riverside, CA 92521

    • May 1, from 8 am to 1 pm: Hillcrest Medical Center at UC San Diego Health, 200 W Arbor Dr, San Diego, CA 92103

    • May 1, from 8 am to 2 pm: UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay, 1975 4th St, San Francisco, CA 94158

    • May 1, from 8 am to 2 pm: San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center, 1001 Potrero Ave, San Francisco, CA 94110

    • May 1, from 9 am to 2 pm: Storke Tower, near 1055 Storke Communications Building, Santa Barbara, CA 93117

    • May 1, from 8 am to 2 pm: On the corner of High Street & Bay Drive, UC Santa Cruz Main Entrance, 1156 High St, Santa Cruz, CA 95064

  • Members from UC Berkeley/​UCOP and LBNL will be traveling to Sacramento for a march and rally at the Capitol. We will leave from the UC Berkeley Crescent Lawn at 8 am on buses to Sacramento. The buses will arrive back in Berkeley at 3 pm.