{"id":45998,"date":"2025-11-10T03:27:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T03:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/45998\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T03:27:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T03:27:08","slug":"86000-university-of-california-workers-set-to-strike-statewide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/45998\/","title":{"rendered":"86,000 University Of California Workers Set To Strike Statewide"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Pat Maio at The Los Angeles Daily News reports in what would be considered the largest Strike in the University of California\u2019s (UC) history, more than 86,000 Union-represented Nurses and Health Care Professionals within its Medical System has announced plans to authorize a two-day Strike (November 17th and 18th). The contract expiration (October 31st) for the Unionized Workers comes at\u00a0a tough time for UC\u2019s Medical Facilities, which have been dealing with the economic challenges of rising health care and tuition costs at its Schools and \u201cuncertainty about Federal funding\u201d and \u201cunprecedented financial challenges.\u201d The three Unions involved in the Strike said the Oakland-based UC System has failed to \u201csettle contracts addressing the cost of living and affordability crises\u201d facing the University\u2019s most \u201cvulnerable Workers.\u201d The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Local 3299 represents 40,000 Service and Patient Care Technical Workers, while the University Professional and Technical Employees-Communications Workers of America (UPTE-CWA) of America Local 9119 represents 21,000 Health Care, Research and Technical Professionals, and the California Nurses Association (CNA) 25,000 Nurses.<\/p>\n

To Continue Reading This Labor News Report, Go To: 86,000 University of California workers to strike statewide Nov. 17-18<\/a><\/p>\n

AFSCME Local 3299 Photo Via The Union\u2019s FB Page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pat Maio at The Los Angeles Daily News reports in what would be considered the largest Strike in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45999,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,30219,30220,30221],"class_list":["post-45998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-labor-news","tag-western-new-york","tag-wny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}