This week, 37,000 UC patient care and service workers represented by AFSCME 3299 will go on strike Wednesday and Thursday, joining 10,000 UPTE-CWA 9119 members on strike from Wednesday to Friday. We encourage all Teamsters members to join the AFSCME or UPTE picket line at your campus on your break or lunch time, or before or after your shift! UC workers win biggest when we stand in solidarity with each other, united against the UC’s unfairness.
Our rights during the strike
Working out of Classification: The work of other Union members remains their work during a strike. Teamsters should not be asked to perform work normally done by an AFSCME- or UPTE-represented employee when that employee is on strike. If you are asked to do work outside your job description, contact your Union Representative immediately.
Sick Days: 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 or UPTE 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 UC Union siblings.
Unfortunately, per our contract with the UC, Teamsters Local 2010 legally cannot sympathy strike with AFSCME and UPTE. 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!