A Cal State systemwide strike secured what more than half a year of negotiations and partial strikes couldn’t: a deal. Negotiators of the California Faculty Association and California State University finalized a tentative agreement last tonight, the union said, ending what would have been a week-long strike at the nation’s largest four-year public university system. […]
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Cal State Faculty Union Vows to Strike Over the University’s Final Pay Offer
The faculty union of the California State University is planning a week of strikes across the 23 campuses Jan. 22 – 26 after the system said this week that it would provide 5 percent raises to members, far below what the union is seeking. The California Faculty Association is asking for 12 percent raises this […]
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Hospitals Brace for Strikes as California Workers Protest Staff Shortages
As weary health care workers across California enter the 19th month of the pandemic, thousands are walking off the job and onto the picket line, demanding more staffing. The strikes and rallies threaten to cripple hospital operations that have been inundated by the COVID-19 Delta surge as well as patients seeking long-delayed care. More than […]
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UC Workforce Churn: Why a Quarter of Lecturers Don’t Return Each Year
Sami Siegelbaum loved teaching art history at UCLA even when his office space was a storage closet. The pay, at around $27,000 a year for the part-time job, wasn’t great, though it was more than what he made at his teaching posts at two other colleges. But after four years, his UCLA teaching contract wasn’t […]
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Times-Standard: Hospital, Workers Union Agree on 4-Year Contract
The Times-Standard is reporting that after more than a year of negotiations, the National Union of Healthcare Workers and St. Joseph’s hospital has reached an agreement. Read the full story here and read NCJ’s past coverage of the National Union of Healthcare Workers November strike here.
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St. Joseph Hospital and Redwood Memorial Hospital Healthcare Workers on Strike
Employees at St. Joseph and Redwood Memorial hospitals donned red shirts and held picket signs demanding fair labor practices as they crowded the corner of the entrance into St. Joseph Hospital in Eureka yesterday. They were protesting the hospital’s staffing shortage and the state of new employee salary negotiations, according to a press release sent […]