UC systemwide strike vote

More than 15 months since we began negotiations, patients, research, and students continue to suffer as UC bargains in bad faith while continuing to pour billions into over-priced, luxury architecture.

UC is sticking to its offer of three years of raises over four years, which would leave us permanently behind inflation and UC nurses, along with unlimited increases in healthcare costs, promising only to exacerbate the crisis of recruitment and retention.

Maintaining the status quo is not an option: we are faced with a choice between escalating our fight for a fair contract or moving backward for the next four years, facing hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars in healthcare cost increases each month.

Your YES vote on September 22 will send a strong message to UC's new President James B. Milliken: UC's behavior is unacceptable, and you are willing to strike for as long as it takes to win.