County and Municipal Employees

They voted to form an AFT council specific to the University of California, creating the University Council-AFT, which currently represents more than 3,300 librarians and non-Academic Senate faculty members such as lecturers, has staff on all 10 UC campuses and continues to enter into regular negotiations with the UC Office of the President, or UCOP, over salaries, job security, job roles and more.

Faculty from UC campuses across the state pushed for greater job stability in negotiations between the University Council-American Federation of Teachers, or UC-AFT, and the UC Office of the President, or UCOP, at UC Berkeley on Wednesday.

Members of the UC American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, or AFSCME, Local 3299 labor union gathered at the entrance of Sproul Plaza on Wednesday to strike in response to contract negotiations and UC’s alleged interference with workers’ rights.

Resolutions to support local workers unions, a proposal to increase safety at San Pablo Park and the provision of mobile showers for homeless individuals are some of the items on the agenda for Tuesday’s regular Berkeley City Council meeting.

Senators also heard from the Office of the External Affairs Vice President’s campus organizing director, Sarah Abdeshahian, about supporting upcoming union strikes.

The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, or AFSCME Local 3299 — the UC system’s largest employee union — passed a vote to strike with 96 percent support this week.

More than 200 UC workers took to UC Berkeley on Monday in a “strike for equality” to protest a forced contract settlement and the alleged unequal treatment of women and people of color.

Demonstrators performed a song and dance inside California Hall on Tuesday, calling out the administration for being “super cheap” and marking the start of a new campaign for the campus to create more union jobs instead of hiring contract workers.

In light of recent concerns regarding the state of the University of California’s budget, the state assembly proposed a bill last week which would cap UC employee compensation at $500,000.

Sen. Leland Yee represented a consistent and formidable thorn in the side of the UC system for years, frequently positioning himself at odds with the university’s publicly stated legislative priorities.