End the Double Standard— Singled Out AFSCME Workers Need Our Support

For almost two years, AFSCME 3299 workers have been engaged in good faith negotiations for a new contract with UC.  AFSCME has offered substantial concessions on UC’s top priorities, but the University has singled them out with the harshest treatment by unilaterally imposing a contract without the same fair wage increases and staffing standards it has granted other UC workers. Predominantly people of color, almost 99% of Local 3299’s service unit are income eligible for public assistance. According to OSHA, their staffing levels have gotten so dangerously low that workplace injuries and illnesses have spiked by 23% in the last five years.  AFSCME will be holding a strike vote February 11-13.  Please support our AFSCME sisters and brothers by watching and sharing this video and signing their End the Double Standard petition.