CUE calls for SYMPATHY STRIKE with UPTE - Wed., May 6
For more info on the strike please to the UPTE website
UPTE is on strike for unfair labor practices – e.g. UC did not present any proposals for over 10 months and cancelled bargaining sessions.
CUE also has been in bargaining for a very long time with little resolution offered by UC. Because we don’t have a contract, we can legally strike in solidarity with UPTE – and in effect stand up for ourselves!
UPTE is in allegiance with CUE and shares many of our demands which include:
- Call on the UC negotiators to bargain fair and reasonable wage increases. This would be the only fair and consistent action to take following raises for management, faculty and 10,000 other UC workers this year.
- A campus wide moratorium on layoffs that would avoid staff and their families having to face long term unemployment in a devastated economy. The UC community should pull together in these tough times.
- A significant cut in executive pay to ensure that the financial sacrifices are being made by those in the best position to make them. Stanford University has taken the lead on this. management should show the same moral leadership in this situation.
- Develop a campus wide program that is based on shared sacrifice to protect UC staff from unemployment. A stronger START Program that is universally applied and credited to departments.
CUE Local 3, 2510 Channing Way, Suite 1, Berkeley, CA 94704
510-841-0700
http://www.berkeleycue.org/
