UPTE Press Releases Archives

UPTE Press Releases

Understaffing and employee turnover endanger patient safety in UC health care operation (04-06-18)

A Return to Tuition Free College For All Can Happen with the $66 Fix (03-13-18)

Under-staffing and employee turnover endanger patient safety in UC health care operations (02-21-18)

AB 848 Press Release: AB 848 Passes, Signed By Governor (10-16-15)

SPSE-UPTE Urges LLNS Management to Put 2008 Layoffs Behind by Paying $37.25 Million to Those Wrongfully Terminated Without Cutting Programmatic Budgets or More Layoffs (10-06-15)

UPTE-CWA 9119 calls on UC Regents to lower student fees if state commits to reinvest in higher education (11-18-14)

Livermore Livermore lab employees consider strike, after management refuses to bargain in good faith over health and safety, pay and pension (10-28-14)

UPTE-CWA members in three bargaining units voted overwhelmingly to ratify historic agreement with UC (12-20-13)

Historic labor agreement at UC on wages, single-tier pension for UPTE-represented employees (12-15-13)

Union Dedicates Contract to Deceased Lab Worker; UC Refuses to Publish Dedication (03-05-12)

Coalition of Family Members and Labor Urge LA District Attorney to Prosecute UCLA Lab Death (01-26-12)

University of California union members join statewide Refund California actions this Wednesday (11-08-11)

UC’s 2500 health care professionals ratify wage increases of 4% plus (11-02-10)

UC employees conduct citizens arrest of President Yudof for his plan to “steal from the poor, give to the rich” (09-16-10)

University of California Health Care Professional Vote For Strike Authorization (06-01-10)

UPTE-CWA and University of California Settle Contract for 10,000 Technical and Research Workers (03-24-10)

Grant Revenue Up Dramatically as UC Rejects Proposals to Increase Salaries and Improve Benefits (12-15-09)

UC unions, students and faculty protest the regents’ destruction of public higher education(11-17-09)

Thousands of UC staff, students and faculty to strike, walkout on first day of classes (09-21-09)

UC Employees Overwhelmingly Reject President Mark Yudof (09-03-09)

While furloughing employees to save $184 million, UC lends the state nearly $200 million in order to continue its campus construction projects (08-06-09)

UC regents award huge pay increases to execs while furloughing staff (07-23-09)

SF Mayor Newsom Honors Picket Line at UCSF Mission Bay Campus to Show Support for UC employees (07-15-09)

UC employees, students join state Senator Leland Yee to protest President Yudof’s proposals, offer alternatives at regents’ meeting (07-24-09)

Employees and students confront UC president on executive pay increases with “wall of shame” in Walnut Creek tonight (04-02-09)

UC Berkeley employees protest raises to UC executives awarded last week at regents’ meeting; call for hiring freeze on UC administrators earning over $200,000 (03-24-09)

UC researchers and techs to picket at all 10 campuses over poverty wages, stalled contract negotiations (03-14-09)

UC staff, students to protest at regents’ meeting, demand greater scrutiny for taxpayer monies (02-02-09)