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The Irvine units of @uaw_4811 (fka @uaw2865 & @uaw5810 ) fighting for academic workers in Orange County. We eat ants 𝑨𝑵𝑫 bosses! 🐜👨💼🍽️
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TODAY! UC Irvine stands up to join its sister campuses on ULP strike against the UC’s continued violent repression of workers’ rights.
Join us outside Aldrich Hall starting at 10am! 🪧
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Automakers paved the way (pun intended) for us and have supported us in our times of need. Let’s return the favor.
Solidarity forever with our UAW siblings in Detroit and across North America. 🪧✊🫡
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UC Irvine appears to be staging to enact the same violence against pro-Palestine protestors that we saw at UCLA and UCSD, the violence which has caused our union to call a strike vote. They have called an unlawful assembly. Keep your eyes on Irvine.
zotALERT: Protest has escalated near Physical Science Quad. Avoid the area. If you are in the area shelter in place for your safety until further notice.
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“Free Palestine, and God bless!” that’s our Head Steward Emeritus 🫡🫶🇵🇸
UCI FACULTY ARRESTED FOR FREE SPEECH “Free Palestine and God bless”
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And we’re off! 🛫 Marching up East Peltason to University Hills here in Irvine to perform a little house call on Chancellor Gillman🚪
#FairUCNow
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These workers won't even slow down until
@GavinNewsom
signs
#AB2183
. They'll be in Sacramento soon!!
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Yesterday, academic workers shut down Campus Drive to force UC to agree to fair contracts!
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📢📢📢The largest higher ed strike in the US continues TOMORROW. At UCI, we are marching to Chancellor Gillman's house to show him that academic workers want to win fair contracts NOW. Meet at 12pm by Engineering Hall - bring pots and pans, see you there!
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🪑Several members of our unit are sitting in at Chancellor Gillman’s Aldrich Hall office currently, asking him to denounce ULPs, commit to ending intimidation at UCI, and urge
@UCPrezDrake
and UCOP to make serious proposals at the bargaining table!
🎥:
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don’t make him go in the bucket again
Pebbles wants to know: Are YOU an academic worker at UCI who has yet to fill out the strike pledge? If so, fill it out, NOW!!!!
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RAGE against poverty wages with Rage Against the Machine guitarist
@tmorello
!!! Southern California
@sruuaw
&
@uaw2865
academic workers are escalating the strike at the Regents meeting happening at UCLA on WEDNESDAY!!!
#FairUCNow
#UAWonStrike
RSVP:
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Highlights from today's Regent's Romp where we disrupted a meeting amongst
@UofCalifornia
regents, featuring a performance by
@tmorello
. There was even a surprise guest appearance from
@amazonlabor
President
@Shut_downAmazon
!
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UAW 2865 is out in Central Valley with
@UNITEHERE11
supporting California farmworkers!!
@GavinNewsom
needs to sign
#AB2183
into law to protect
@UFWupdates
right to organize! ✊
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🪐 Physics, physics you’re no good
Treat your workers like you should! 🪐
Pictures from our march to the
@UCIPhysAstro
department this morning. We won’t stand for illegal intimidation or retaliation against workers here or at any UC campuses!
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🚨🇵🇸 ATTN UCI-UAW MEMBERS & ALLIES: Palestinian students and their allies at UCI are facing student conduct charges for simply expressing opposition to apartheid in the Occupied Territories. Please sign this SJP-UCI petition to hold solidarity with them:
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Academic workers at Irvine are taking action to win fair contracts with the support of pro-labor champions
@katieporteroc
and
@AOC
!
#FairUCNow
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At tonight's MMM, Irvine workers adotped a plan of escalating organization and direct action in solidarity with Palestinians and pro-Palestinian orgs.
Tomorrow, workers will pack Irvine City Hall at 3:30pm to tell the City Council we demand a ceasefire now!
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Police departments at UCI so far by my count 👇👇👇
1 UCIPD
2 Irvine
3 Santa Ana
4 Garden Grove
5 Huntington Beach
6 Fullerton
7 Anaheim
8 City of Orange
9 Newport Beach
10 Westminster
11 La Palma
12 Tustin
13 Costa Mesa
14 Fountain Valley
15 OC Sheriffs
16 CA Highway Patrol
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Irvine
@uaw5810
&
@uaw2865
workers showed out in support of our union cousins in
@afscme3299
! ✨
Cross🤝Union🤝Solidarity!
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Robin D.G. Kelley, "It's unconscionable to have to fight so hard for what should be minimal standards but you're up against a corporate Goliath. University administrators sit on billions of dollars of endowments and still claim they can't afford to pay workers a living wage."
Grad workers! Another round of solidarity videos for folks on the picket lines and elsewhere, from
@BarbaraRansby
of UIC, Adom Getachew of UChicago, and Robin D. G. Kelley of UCLA ⚡️⚡️⚡️
#ssjforunions
@33unitehere
@uchicagogsu
@uaw2865
@NorthwesternGW
@gradworkersofBU
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Some great pictures (from
@CemAddemir
) of ours and other
@uaw2865
campus units’ squadron members out in Ontario with
@UAWLocal230
yesterday!
👨🏫 🤝🧑🏭🤝🧑🔬
Today we’re in Rancho Cucamonga with Local 6645! Sign up to join a flying squadron later in the week in the quote!👇👇👇
Who is ready to
#StandUp
!? Four parts distribution centers in our Region will walk off the job at 12pm EST, 9am PST today. There is only one way we win this fight: together.
#StandUpUAW
#Region6StandUp
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this timing…🤨
Governor Newsom proposes stripping $13 million from the UC budget allocated to support labor research and education programs. Sign the letter below to tell our elected California leaders to save it.
@UCAFT
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UCI
@uaw2865
workers were at the morning shift in Ontario today! ✊
Where are the parts distribution centers. Ontario in the LA area? Where else? I urge those of us who are student/researcher/faculty members of the UAW to join these PDC picket lines as a manifestation of our solidarity in this historic fight.
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In response to the raises won in our new contracts, the UC is now threatening to reduce the size of its academic workforce. On February 22nd at 1pm, join your coworkers at Aldrich Hall in the fight to stop these job cuts and
#REJECTAUSTERITY
!
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We signed up a supermajority of new teaching assistants as union members today!!! Next up: winning a fair UC for everyone through our contract fight ✊
70 workers volunteered to organize at the UCI orientations today… and 339 new TAs joined their union! ✨
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There are SIX helicopters currently circling the UCI Physical Sciences quad. Is this where our tax and tuition money should be going?
Thousands of students and workers are standing up against the police line here, postponing their advance.
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Thank you Mayor Khan for continuing to be an ally in the fight against the UC’s repressive tactics. This community stands together!
Today I stood with
@uawuci
members during a rally as they begin their strike on Wednesday. I stand with the students, professors, and staff at UCI - amnesty for all.
#Irvine
#uci
#amnestyforall
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UC Irvine Law professor weighs in on UC’s latest brazenly illegal act 👇
It is pretty darn brazen of UC to go to Superior Ct after PERB TWICE denied them. UC's actions are not unlike what Starbucks and Amazon are doing in the private sector: attempting to undermine the bodies governing labor law. My thoughts as a law professor at UCI 🧵 1/X
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@UofCalifornia
seems to prefer arresting academic workers than negotiating a
#FairUCNow
.
#UAWonStrike
One day longer, one day stronger!
UC police are beginning to arrest protesters at Regents meeting.
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“Year of Free Speech” is going well here at UCI, as everyone can now see
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“UCI is committed to free speech.”
So much so that they’re handing us violation notices before our rally today even begins…
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UCI “acknowledges misstatements” (read: admits to lying) about the protest on 5/15 — and STILL says their 20+ police department response was “measured and appropriate given the circumstances”…
Which circumstances Gillman?
The real ones?
Or the fake one you told campus about?
UC Irvine leaders defend response to student protests in answers to Academic Senate
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Academic workers from across campus showed up yesterday to deliver our long letter to admin letting them know that we
#RejectAusterity
and will continue to
#fightbackagainstcutbacks
as long as it takes!
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“Since bargaining began with UAW 5810 (Postdocs), UAW 2865, and SRU, the UC has shown no interest in making these necessary changes...but by showing them that 48,000 workers are united and ready to fight, we can change.”
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who’s labor paid for this $5,000,000+ mansion and acres of prime OC land? (rhetorical question)
Gillman lives here for free, meanwhile here at UCI most of us pay rent back to the school (and are still rent burdened!) 💸
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The non-protester, who just wanted to pick up her transcript and was wrongfully arrested, was released from jail this morning.
We need to keep cops off our campuses.
We need a COLA in our bank accounts.
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Wednesday!! It’s time to STAND UP! 🫡🪧
Academic workers at UCSB and UCSD will walk off the job starting Monday, June 3rd, and academic workers at UC Irvine will join them on Wednesday, June 5th.
#StandUpUC
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Tomorrow, Irvine joins its sibling campuses across the state on strike! If you’d like to donate food to sustain our picket, please find information on how at
Can’t strike on an empty stomach! 🍽️
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Cops rehydrating with water from the encampment after the hard, tiring work of brutalizing anti-genocide students and workers.
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After summer session TAs did not get paid on Sept 1, our union filed a grievance on behalf of all affected workers. Since then, TAs received most of the missed payment & Dean Hayes notified those TAs that they will receive additional $300 fellowships. Union power works!
@uaw2865
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We remember when UCI floated “roommating to save money” to grads a while ago. Just straight-up insulting.
.
@UCSanDiego
is planning a 3% increase for current renters and an increase of up to 72% above current rates for new renters. This is unacceptable--doubly so in a pandemic! Sign the petition and tell UCSD we won’t accept rent hikes:
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Good news in the middle of this police kettle 🪧🪧🪧🪧
The results are in: 79% of participating members voted YES to authorize a strike if circumstances justify. On Friday, the Eboard will evaluate and announce whether to call the first campus or campuses to Stand Up
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Tonight members joined with local pro-Palestine organizations to demand that Irvine City Council to pass a resolution for an immediate, permanent ceasefire in Palestine.
If councilmembers want to rely on the support of UCI-UAW workers & organizing, they must take action now! 🇵🇸
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🎵 Imagine summer funding! It isn't hard to do! UCI actually offered it; only, NOT to you!🎵
They also won't put it in a contract 🤭
Join us at our rally next Wednesday to DEMAND they guarantee summer funding for ALL in our contract.
RSVP:
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If you’re a worker at Irvine who wants to carpool or attend, we’ll be sending a contingent. Solidarity with our fellow workers in SD! ✊
📣CALL TO ACTION📣 Join us and members of
@uaw5810
next Monday at the San Diego Central Courthouse where we will rally for free speech and call on
@ucsandiego
to
#DropTheCharges
RSVP:
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BIG WIN FOR UCSD WORKERS — AND FOR ALL OF US ‼️
We gotta keep making sure the university knows they can’t mess with our rights. We still have so much more to win, but this continues to show that when we fight — we DO win.
📣 CHARGES DROPPED 📣 After months of resistance, UC San Diego has agreed to drop all student misconduct charges and to pursue no further legal action against the three workers arrested in June for allegedly chalking protest slogans on campus.
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SOLIDARITY FOREVER!
UPDATE: Nearly all UPS drivers in southern and northern CA have been informed by the Teamsters that they can refuse to deliver packages to the U of California during the strike.
Teamsters confirmed. This will likely to have some impact on the U.C. system
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UAW 2865 Irvine members met with
@AOC
and
@RepMarkTakano
today in Riverside to talk about climate justice, equity in higher ed, and the CA housing crisis. Thank you both for fighting alongside academic workers!
Unions are on the forefront of the fight for environmental and racial justice. Thanks to
@AOC
and
@RepMarkTakano
for joining SRU-UAW,
@uaw2865
,
@UAW4123
, and
@UAW5810
today. 50,000 Academic Workers in California look forward to fighting for a more just world alongside you!
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unfortunately we might have to block the gate, brought some friends…
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These kinds of student conduct charges are particularly heinous given that UCI Chancellor Howard Gilman has christened this academic year the "Year of Free Speech." There is no free speech if pro-Palestinian/anti-apartheid speech is restricted. We cannot have another Irvine 11.
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It’s outrageous, but unsurprising, the measures the UC will go to not uphold its end of our bargain. Charging workers with physical assault for disrupting an event to demand timely implementation of a contract the UC agreed to is heinous. Solidarity with our southern SD siblings.
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After the fact, I’ve heard Buena Park and San Diego PD were also represented. 23 police departments!!
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NO KNOWN PREDATORS
Today, Academic Workers of
@UAW_4811
launch a momentous Stand Up Strike in response to egregious Unfair Labor Practices committed by the University of California in the course of their denial of historic free speech rights and brutal attack on peaceful, pro-Palestinian protests.
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At least someone gets it
This is disgraceful. All workers deserve the right to bargain and strike for better wages and benefits. To Janet Napolitano and
@UCSC
: stop this outrageous union busting and negotiate in good faith.
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OC Sheriffs are up to the protestor chain blocking one entrance to the encampment.
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International student workers at UCI are TIRED of being told that they have to take an English test due to their nationality--especially since research shows that citizenship does not reliably predict English proficiency. Check out our video!
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Full-time graduate students at UCI may not be employed beyond 50% time. However, most are required to work much more than that in order to meet expectations.
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From the lab to the line! 🧪➡️🚗
UAW-UC researchers not just at LBL, but at UCI and all across the state work on this important battery tech. 🔋
It’s not cross-sector: it’s one union committed to one united project of building a more sustainable future! ✊
This week, Postdoc and Grad Worker members of UC-UAW at LBL discussed their research with members of European Parliament, highlighting how they develop many of the technologies that our UAW siblings in the auto sector are implementing in EVs 🧵
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And Cal State PD — grand total of 19 Police Depts I’ve counted so far.
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No more dehumanization. Ceasefire now and end Israeli apartheid in Palestine.
A message from Chancellor Howard Gillman on the killing of innocent people in Israel by Hamas: "There is no notion of 'freedom fighting' or anti-Zionism that justifies or can rationalize the murder & kidnapping of more than a thousand civilians."
More:
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Even subsidized housing isn't going far enough. UCI boasts that it offers subsidized housing on campus for graduate students, and yet, the grads on campus are STILL severely rent burdened! (Not to mention the undergrads who are totally houseless...)
@spiroferrer
got it! truly infuriating lol. there should really be heavily subsidized/free grad housing
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Little update on UC foolishness, for everyone 👇
UC has once again failed to secure an injunction against our strike. Academic workers are ready to reach resolution over UC’s ULPs—where is UC?
#StandUpUC
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Full solidarity with the Palestinian people. The occupation must end, and the first step towards that is an end to this most recent campaign of wanton violence perpetrated by the Israeli regime. Ceasefire now, as a step to the full liberation of Palestine within our lifetimes. 🇵🇸
🧵On October 28th, 2023, our Local Unions passed a statement calling for a
#CeasefireNOW
and an end to the occupation of Palestine. In the past 41 days alone, Israeli bombs have claimed over 11,000 lives in Gaza. 1/6
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Over 35,000 academic workers at the University of California have voted to authorize a multi-unit strike, which is set to begin November 14. Community members and workers alike can find picket locations here 👉🏼
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Think of how this kind of precedent can affect your classroom, research, and overall academic freedom. This is yet another example of how the struggle for a free Palestine can affect us all—even those who have not yet spoken out.
Free Palestine. End the occupation.
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They bought
@UCPrezDrake
a $6.5 mil spot up in Berkeley last year btw. This is *another* **BIGGER** house.
But UC wants to not pay academic workers what they’re owed and to raise tuition. Not enough money for sustaining affordable and equitable public education, we’re told! 🫥
Wow! After UC lobbied against their workers having basic labor standards yesterday, they are set to approve a brand new house for the UC President at a closed door special meeting on a Wednesday. Rumor has it, this is a $12-$13 million mansion.
@_UCSA
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The best way to reduce of problematic police behavior is to get rid of police. UCIPD has had the chance to reform. Time’s up. Time to defund UCIPD.
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More than 10.5k student researchers are ready to strike!
@UCIrvine
@UofCalifornia
BREAKING - 10,890 SRs voted in our Strike Authorization Vote, and 97.5% of them voted yes.
@UCPrezDrake
and
@UofCalifornia
, are you paying attention?
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So awesome seeing members from our unit and
@UAWUCLA
at yesterday's Labor Day action! We heard our very own Head Steward
@nataliebarman
talk about why we need to vote
#YesOn15
, plus
@fatima4assembly
@KonstantineinCA
and
@wadekyle32
.
Time to tax the rich!
Thank you to everyone who came out to our Labor Day action in support of taxing the rich to fund our schools and services!! Onward to November!
And a big thank you to our speakers
@fatima4assembly
@KonstantineinCA
@nataliebarman
and
@wadekyle32
#DSAforProp15
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Thank you
@katieporteroc
- Irvine's very own representative - for supporting Student Researchers, who are our fellow graduate student workers!
#1u
@sruuaw
The
@UofCalifornia
is one of the best research institutes in the world. As a former professor, I know its success wouldn't be possible without its student researchers. My colleagues and I are urging
@UCPrezDrake
to recognize
@sruuaw
, the union chosen by UC's student researchers.
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UC Irvine Chemistry is union strong!! Academic workers at UCI are ready to fight for a fair contract.
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Saddened and absolutely heartbroken about what happened just about an hour north of our campus last night in Monterey Park.
We stand with our colleagues and the broader AAPI communities in this time of grief.
Solidarity and love forever.
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MORE CAMPUSES STANDING UP 👇👇👇
The Executive Board of UAW Local 4811 has called on Academic Workers at UCLA and UC Davis to STAND UP and walk off the job next Tuesday, May 28th.
#StandUpUC
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Solidarity with UNITE HERE 11 from up the 73!
Another group of workers that the UC is actively trying to deny a fair, dignified workplace for and wring every last cent out of. Calls for a fair UC now don’t stop at the end of our campuses, they extend across all UC property! ✊
Union coalition to
@UofCalifornia
, which owns Laguna Cliffs Marriott: "It is time for the hotel to agree to the workers’ just demands for living wages and settle a new contract with UNITE HERE Local 11."
@UNITEHERE11
@afscme3299
@uaw2865
@UCAFT
@IBTlocal2010
@CalNurses
@UPTECWA
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