Author Archives: Heather Rabkin

A three-year tentative contract agreement between the University of California and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Union was reached on Wednesday after nine months of negotiating and a week after AFSCME held a one-day strike. “It’s an important victory for service workers and thousands of their allies, including students, community leaders […]

A group of nearly 50 UCLA students and supporters marched to Chancellor Albert Carnesale’s office Tuesday to protest service workers’ wages less than a week after the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees went on strike at University of California campuses. “The workers’ strike was to empower themselves to ask for decent wages. […]

Service workers in the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees plan to go on strike today because of their frustrations with contract negotiations between them and the University of California. The strike is scheduled to only last today, and workers are expected to return to work Friday. At UCLA, there are approximately 2,000 […]

The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees has issued a notice that it will strike on April 14 if the University of California does not compromise with it. The UC and AFSCME have met 27 times to negotiate since the union’s contract expired in June 2004, according to an AFSCME press release. The […]

Representatives from the UCLA Medical Center and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees met Wednesday to discuss recent layoffs and what the next step may be for both sides. As of Wednesday afternoon, 143 full-time positions have been eliminated in the UCLA health-care system, though many of those could have been open […]

Relations between the University of California and UC labor unions have become more strained within the past year, partly due to state budget cuts to the university. Over the past decade, budget cuts have not always been an issue, and neither have tensions between unions and the UC. Between 1996 and 2002, the state budget […]

As contract negotiations between the University of California and the Coalition of University Employees were halted for a lunch break on Thursday, students and workers used the opportunity to come together. A rally was held in front of Kerckhoff Hall to draw attention to the Fact Finder’s Report released by CUE last week and the […]