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Keeping Dr. King’s Dream Alive
City Of Berkeley Workers Address Issues Facing Bay Area Communities In Contract Negotiations
On April 4 hundreds of Berkeley City Workers rallied on their first day of contract negotiations along with community allies commemorating the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s death. King was assassinated in Memphis, where he joined the public sanitation workers strike in the spring of 1968.
Berkeley City Workers Overwhelmingly Vote To Authorize A Strike By 99%
(Berkeley , CA) – Ninety-nine percent of the hundreds of city workers who voted at Berkeley City Hall authorized their bargaining team to call for a strike. A strike date has not been set.
Santa Clara University Non-Tenured Faculty Seek Union Election
Santa Clara University (SCU) adjunct faculty and lecturers are sidestepping the NLRB and calling on University administrators to partner with them in their efforts to build a worker organization. The faculty are requesting the administration agree to hold a speedy, neutral, in-house vote on unionization. SCU President Father Michael Engh is expected to respond to the faculty’s request this week.
Kristin Kusanovich, Senior Lecturer, Theatre and Dance, says “We see both a better climate for student learning and faculty sustainability improving with unionization.”
Addressing Understaffing and Long Patient Wait Times
On April 18, more than a dozen radiology and ultrasound technicians testified before the San Francisco Board of Supervisors Public Safety and Neighborhood Services Committee. The technicians work at Zuckerberg SF General (ZSFGH) and Laguna Honda Hospitals, where patients are suffering long wait times because of understaffing in radiology and ultrasound departments.