US EditionThousands of UC workers begin 2-day strike Monday
- On Nov. 17, 2025, AFSCME Local 3299 led a two-day strike at 18 University of California campuses and medical facilities involving more than 40,000 employees.
- After bargaining that began in mid-2024, Michael Avant, president of AFSCME Local 3299, criticized UC spending on new facilities and executive raises while workers demand higher wages, cost-of-living and safe staffing.
- Picket lines formed at UCSF Medical Center Mission Bay, UC Irvine Medical Center, UC Riverside and UCLA campuses and hospitals, with custodians, food service workers, patient care assistants and hospital technicians marching and pickets expected to end by 4 p.m. on both days.
- On Nov. 8 and Nov. 15, two unions reached tentative agreements, and UC said facilities would stay open with contingency plans despite some delays.
- With bargaining running 21 months, UC officials say they have negotiated in good faith with AFSCME while two unions settled this month, amid a systemwide vacancy crisis linked to low wages.
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Tens of thousands of University of California healthcare workers carry out 2-day strike, as union bureaucrats disrupt their unity
The conditions are emerging for a powerful movement in defense of the right to healthcare, but this requires a fight against the union bureaucracy, which slashed the size of the strike by more than half with last-minute sellouts.
40,000 University of California hospital system workers in two-day strike
SAN DIEGO—As 40,000 AFSCME Local 3299 workers throughout the ten-campus University of California system launched a two-day strike on Nov. 17, two Communist Party members—Alvin, an AFSCME-represented employee at University of California at San Diego (UCSD), and another worker, an AFSCME retiree from UC San Francisco—shared their thoughts before they prepared to picket. Pay, or lack of it, is the big issue. But so is disparate treatment on a class…
Thousands of workers at the University of California broke out a two-day strike in the state in the middle of a conflict over contractual negotiations
The Center Square
More than 40,000 go on strike at University of California sites
Editor's note: This story has been updated since its initial publication with an update on an agreement between the University of California and the California Nurses Association.
San Bernardino Sun
40,000 patient care, technical workers launch 2-day UC strike
Workers with AFSCME Local 3299 began their two-day strike at UC Irvine Medical Center in Orange, CA on Monday, Nov. 17, 2025. The union includes patient care and technical workers. (Photo by Paul Bersebach, Orange County Register/SCNG) Workers with AFSCME Local 3299 began their two-day strike at UC Irvine Medical Center in Orange, CA on Monday, Nov. 17, 2025. The union includes patient care and technical workers. (Photo by Paul Bersebach, Orange…
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