Following the 3 Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) charges filed against UC management, we were able to reach some major tentative agreements (see details below and the bargaining tracker here)! However, management’s bad faith bargaining remains an obstacle to making progress on many priorities. It is clear that the only way to get UC to honor their obligation to bargain in good faith is to continue escalating. To that end, in response to management’s unlawful behavior, the bargaining teams are calling for SSAPs and RPSPs to hold a ULP Strike Authorization Vote (SAV) starting on Thursday, February 5.
To make sure our SAV is successful and powerful, it’s important that all RPSPs and SSAPs do our part to pressure management to stop standing in the way of a strong, fair contract by committing ULPs. Here’s what you can do:
Sign up for an SAV Training to learn more!
At the same time, 28,000 Academic Student Employees are holding their own Unfair Labor Practice strike authorization votes over management’s unlawful actions at their bargaining table. Check out this website to learn more about our parallel strike authorization votes!
In response to months of organizing and last week’s signaling that we are not going to tolerate their Unfair Labor Practices, UC management agreed to four tentative agreements on Non-Discrimination, Respectful Work Environment, Reasonable Accommodation, and Leaves for Union Business. These represent transformative wins that significantly raise the standards for protections against discrimination, retaliation, abuse, harassment, and bullying in the workplace and uphold the right for employees with disabilities to access their workplace and conduct their work. Critically, these protections are fully enforceable through grievance and arbitration.
However, UC management’s disappointing counterproposal on wages was nearly identical to their first proposal with only a trivial change – an initial raise from 3% to 3.2%, and 2% to 3% in subsequent years.
Management has still not fulfilled their legal obligation to provide information we need to negotiate on Wages, Healthcare, Retirement, Leaves, and more. Escalating towards a Strike Authorization Vote is necessary to continue holding management accountable to resolving their Unfair Labor Practices and reaching a fair agreement.
