RSVP to Our ULP Statewide Strike at UC

May 1, 2025

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.

Since June of 2024, UPTE-represented healthcare professionals, research support, and technical employees at the University of California have been fighting for a contract that will address the recruitment and retention crisis impacting our work. We’ve brought proposals to the table for safe staffing, career progression, work/life balance, fair pay, and job security, but have been met with bad-faith bargaining and unfair labor practices from UC. Enough is enough—Californians deserve better.

Find a picket line near you!

  • Members from UC Berkeley/​UCOP and LBNL will be traveling to Sacramento for a 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 1:30 pm: John C Fremont Park, 1515 Q St, Sacramento, CA 95814

    Members from UC Davis will be traveling to Sacramento for a 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 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. 

Those experiencing financial hardship will be entitled to apply for the financial hardship fund.

UPTE has a limited fund reserved for members facing financial hardship during the strike. To receive a payment, you must be on the picket line for a complete shift during the day of the unfair labor practice strike and sign in and out each day. Checks for $100 will be mailed two to three weeks after the strike. The hardship fund can only be applied for in person, on the picket line, on May 1.