Support Our
STRIKE
University of California systemwide
May 1, 2025
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.
Learn more below and find a plan to join your colleagues on the picket line for however long it takes to win the contract our patients, students, research, and workforce deserve.
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.
Will you stand with us and hold UC accountable to its mission and obligations to follow the law?
Find a picket line near you!
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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.
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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 through the streets of the California State Capitol and rally at John C Fremont Park. UPTE will provide shuttles from campus and the hospital to John C Fremont Park for those who need it. RSVP to reserve your spot.
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May 1, from 8 am to 1 pm: UCI Health — Fountain Valley, 17100 Euclid St, Fountain Valley, CA 92708
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May 1, from 8 am to 1 pm: Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, 757 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095
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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
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May 1, from 8 am to 2 pm: UC Riverside Arts Building, 900 University Ave #232, Riverside, CA 92521
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May 1, from 8 am to 1 pm: Hillcrest Medical Center at UC San Diego Health, 200 W Arbor Dr, San Diego, CA 92103
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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
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May 1, from 9 am to 2 pm: Storke Tower, near 1055 Storke Communications Building, Santa Barbara, CA 93117
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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
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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.
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UPTE members share their stories
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. While UC’s unfair labor practices are at the core of our strike, it’s also important to recognize the priorities and personal stories we’ve brought to the bargaining table. Unfortunately, UC’s unfair labor practices prevent us from addressing those issues, including the systemwide recruitment and retention crisis, a lack of career progression, job security, fair pay, work/life balance, and more.