From: benjamin_mckean (ben@usasnet.org)
Date: Tue Oct 15 2002 - 14:39:49 EDT
From: ALXENA50@aol.com
To: usas@yahoogroups.com,
Subject: FW: UC lecturers' strike!!
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 14:28:20 -0400
Dear USAS folks-
The lecturers (non-senate faculty) of the University of California
system are striking across the state this week. Lecturer's make up
more than 50% of teachers in the UC system, and have been abused by
the administration for years. Although they are unionized, the
administration has systematically refused to negotiate in good faith
with the union, prompting several lawsuits and much discontent.
If you are interested in learning more and being involved in
student solidarity actions, please read the file that I pasted below
and contact me.
Thanks- Anne Shaver, California CC Rep.
Talking Points
• Lecturers at U.C. Santa Cruz are walking out on a two-day strike on
October 14th and
15th. The strike at Santa Cruz is being organized by local 2199 of
the University Council
of the American Federation of Teachers (UC-AFT), as part of a
statewide job action.
• Lecturers at five other U.C. Campuses will also strike at the same
time. These campuses
are: U.C. Davis, U.C. Riverside, U.C. Irvine, U.C. San Diego and U.C.
Santa Barbara.
Lecturers at U.C. Berkeley struck in August, and Lecturers at
U.C.L.A. are planning to
strike in November.
• Clerical workers, members of the Coalition of University Employees
(CUE), will also
strike.
• The strike is in response to the U.C. central administration's
unfair labor practices and
bad-faith bargaining.
• The strike is LEGAL. The Public Employees' Relations Board (PERB)
has certified two
Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) complaints filed against the U.C. by the
UC-AFT. This
gives us a legal right to strike for two days. The university's claim
that the strike is illegal
because we haven't reached impasse in negotiations is disingenuous,
to put it kindly. This
is not an economic strike, it is a ULP strike. While it is true that
we haven't reached
impasse (no thanks to the U.C.'s horrible bargaining practices), it
is also true that we
don't have to. The certified ULPs against the U.C. give us the legal
grounds for our
strike.
• The two ULPs that have been certified so far are
– A ULP based on the university's unilateral changes to our health
care costs (they
raised them). It is illegal for them to do so while we are still
negotiating our contract
and the old contract has expired.
– A ULP based on the termination without review of four lecturers at
U.C. Davis who
had reached the six year review stage of their employment. This also
contravenes
the terms of our old contract.
• For two years the university has been withholding from lecturers
and clericals a 3% COLA
allocated by the state for all university employees. They are holding
this money hostage
as part of their bargaining strategy. While not a ULP it is certainly
a bad-faith gesture.
• Lecturers have been working without a contract since June, 2000 and
have been nego-tiating
with the U.C. for over two and half years. The university has engaged
in bad
faith bargaining (e.g., by sending people to the table without the
authority to bargain),
they have repeatedly delayed negotiations, they have denied our
bargaining team access
to information that they are obligated to provide, and they continue
to claim that they
have no money while sitting on a reserve of over two billion dollars.
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