UC Strike Hub
April 1, 2025
RSVP below to join us on the picket line!
Since June of 2024, UPTE-represented healthcare professionals, research support, and technical employees at the University of California have been fighting for a contract that will address the crisis of recruitment and retention crippling our work. We’ve brought proposals to the table for safe staffing, career progression, work/life balance, fair pay, and job security but have been met with bad-faith bargaining and unfair labor practices from UC. Enough is enough—Californians deserve better.
Learn more below and find a plan to join your colleagues on the picket line for however long it takes to win the contract our patients, students, research, and workforce deserve.
UPTE-represented workers across the University of California system are striking over UC’s unfair labor practices, including unilateral implementation of healthcare cost increases with higher premiums, as well as UC’s insistence on threatening our job security by moving our work into new non-union job titles, and then, after the workers in the new titles organize into the union, refusing to let them negotiate wages as part of statewide negotiations—relegating each of the various job titles to inefficient and ineffective piecemeal bargaining in an illegal “divide & conquer” strategy.
RSVP to join us on the picket line!
Find a picket line near you!
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April 1 from 7 am to 2 pm: On the Corner of Bancroft Way and Telegraph Avenue, 2501 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA 94720
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April 1 from 7 am to 2 pm: UC Davis Medical Center, 4301 X St, Sacramento, CA 95817
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April 1 from 7 am to 2 pm: On the corner of The City Drive & Medical Center Drive, UCI Medical Center, near Pavilion 2, 101 The City Dr S, Orange, CA 92868
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April 1 from 7 am to 2 pm: Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, 757 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095
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Please note: On April 1 from 7 am to 1 pm, UPTE members at UC Merced will picket at the intersection of Bellevue Road & North Lake Road, Merced, CA 95343, near the Bellevue Lot UC Merced, at 5201 Lake Rd, Merced, CA 95343.
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April 1 from 7 am to 2 pm: UC Riverside Arts Building, 900 University Ave #232, Riverside, CA 92521
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April 1 from 7 am to 2 pm: Koman Family Outpatient Pavilion at Jacobs Medical Center at UC San Diego Health, 9400 Campus Point Dr, La Jolla, CA 92037
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April 1 from 7 am to 2 pm: UCSF Helen Diller Medical Center at Parnassus Heights, 505 Parnassus Ave, San Francisco, CA 94143
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April 1 from 7 am to 2 pm: Storke Tower, near 1055 Storke Communications Building, Santa Barbara, CA 93117
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April 1 from 7 am to 2 pm: Intersection of High Street & Bay Drive, UC Santa Cruz Main Entrance, 1156 High St, Santa Cruz, CA 95064
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April 1 from 7 am to 9:30 am: On the corner of Hearst Avenue & Gayley Road, Foothill Student Housing, Foothill Student Housing 4, 2700 Hearst Ave, Berkeley, CA 94720 (Moving to Bancroft Way & Telegraph Avenue at 9:30 am to continue the shift at UC Berkeley)
Those experiencing financial hardship will be entitled to apply for the financial hardship fund.
UPTE has a limited fund reserved for members facing financial hardship during the strike. To receive a payment, you must be on the picket line for a complete shift during the day of the unfair labor practice strike and sign in and out each day. Checks for $100 will be mailed two to three weeks after the strike. The hardship fund can only be applied for in person, on the picket line, on April 1.
Are you a UPTE-represented worker at UC going on an unfair labor practice strike on April 1? Set your out-of-office message to the following:
Hi there,
I'm sorry, but I am out of the office today due to an unfair labor practice strike. I'm joining with my coworkers in our union, UPTE. UC does not permit me to provide more information on their email system. If you want more information, go to upte.org/support.
Sincerely,
[Your name]
[Your classification]