UC Student Workers Union

Berkeley, a city that is no stranger to community organizing, is home to a diverse array of unions representing everyone from tenants and student researchers to campus librarians and lecturers.

The fight for a UC Green New Deal is not isolated — we should view it as part of the broader struggle against climate change happening worldwide.

Community members and students representing workers' unions and environmental organizations gathered for a UC Green New Deal Town Hall.

On May 16, AFSCME Local 3299 went on a systemwide strike to protest the outsourcing of UC jobs to Kindred and Aya Healthcare. 

SB 698, which won bipartisan support on May 23, would eliminate the University of California’s exemption from strict wage laws and make it illegal for UC workers to be paid late if it is passed, according to a press release from the UC Student-Workers Union.

The University of California launched its new, single payroll system UCPath at UC Berkeley on Sunday.

Members of the UC Student-Workers Union, or UAW Local 2865, protested Thursday in Riverside outside the UCPath office in response to the new UCPath payroll system, which is being implemented throughout the UC system to facilitate the payment of UC employee salaries.

On the first day of the three-day strike by the UC’s largest employee union — the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, or AFSCME, Local 3299 — union members rallied, marched through the UC Berkeley campus and formed picket lines Tuesday.

The rally began with speakers from various student groups, set to a drum circle. A crowd then marched up to the unaffiliated fraternity house Delta Kappa Epsilon, or DKE — the same fraternity that Kavanaugh was in while at Yale University.

Agreements reached include a 3 percent annual wage increase, a one-time payment of $100 for every eligible employee, an increased childcare subsidy, a partial campus fee waiver and the establishment of a joint labor-management committee on sexual harassment issues and training.