RPSPs completed our second joint bargaining session with UC management this Friday, November 14th. Through two sessions, UC agreed to extend the five Tentative Agreements that our SSAPs partners negotiated to benefit RPSPs (see bargaining tracker). Now that RPSPs and SSAPs have aligned our campaigns, we are bringing more speed and power to the bargaining table than either could on our own while UC continues to stall and present inadequate proposals.
Now is the time for each one of us to show UC leadership that we are united in our effort to win strong contracts that increase retention of the workers who carry out UC’s mission.
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Friday’s progress:
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**Visit the SSAP & RPSP Bargaining Tracker to see the details of everything exchanged up until this point in collective bargaining.
UC management’s counterproposals to Discipline & Dismissal and Grievance & Arbitration lacked meaningful movement towards our priorities. In our sessions so far, they’ve shown up late, unprepared, and without any urgency.
If management doesn’t believe all RPSPs care about fighting for greater control and flexibility in our work arrangements, better wages, and our other demands, they won’t seriously negotiate.
We have five bargaining dates left before 2025 ends. How much progress we make in these next bargaining sessions depends on how much participation management sees from all 12,000 SSAPs and RPSPs in our rally together on November 20th.
One final note: there is a recent vacancy on the RPSP Bargaining Team for which an election will be held. To self-nominate, please complete this form no later than Friday, November 21st 5pm PST. The election will be held online from November 24-26; more details on how to vote will be sent out later this week.
With people power,
PS: our union siblings in AFSCME have announced strike dates for Monday Nov 17 and Tuesday Nov 18. You can show support by joining their picket line on break and non-work time.
