On Wednesday and Thursday this week, 37,000 UC patient care and service workers represented by AFSCME 3299 will go on strike to protest the UC’s bad-faith bargaining and lack of respect for essential frontline workers. All ten campuses and five medical centers in the UC system will be affected. Teamsters 2010 is proud to support our AFSCME sisters and brothers as they fight for good wages and fair treatment.
Our rights during the strike
AFSCME’s work remains AFSCME’s work during the strike. Teamsters should not be asked to perform work normally done by an AFSCME-represented employee when that employee is on strike. If you are asked to do work outside your job description, contact your Union Representative immediately.
Our Union contracts strictly limit when the employer may ask for a doctor’s note for a sick day. Your manager may not ask you to provide a doctor’s note to approve a request for sick time during the strike, except as permitted in our Union contract. If your manager does so, contact your Union Representative immediately.
Joining the picket line
We strongly encourage members to join their nearest AFSCME picket line on break, lunch, or before or after your shift. If you would like to join or honor the picket line during your work time, you have an individual, constitutional right to do so, and can use PTO or unpaid time to support our AFSCME siblings.
Unfortunately, per our contract with the UC, Teamsters Local 2010 legally cannot sympathy strike with AFSCME. Every UC union, including Local 2010, is contractually prevented from holding sympathy strikes with our fellow Unions. We consider this a suppression of our rights as workers, and have been fighting in the state legislature to allow every public employee to join a sympathy strike and honor a picket line.
Thank you for supporting our fellow UC workers!