UAW Workers Stage ‘Last Chance’ Practice Picket at UC Santa Barbara

Student workers hold “Last Chance” pickets across University of California System

Around 40,000 UC workers in United Auto Workers Local 4811 voted overwhelmingly to strike, but have been kept on the job by union officials nearly two weeks since their contract expired on March 1.

UAW Workers Stage ‘Last Chance’ Practice Picket at UC Santa Barbara

About 300 unionized UC workers marched through campus Thursday in a coordinated statewide action organizers described as a “last chance” signal to university leaders.

UC Berkeley academic workers hold 'last chance picket' as part of statewide protest

Hundreds of academic workers participated in a “last chance picket” at University of California, Berkeley on Thursday to demonstrate their willingness to go on strike over unfair labor practices. The UAW Local 4811 union organized a simultaneous picketing event at all 10 University of California campuses on behalf of 40,000 of the academic workers they represent.  The workers allege that the UC administration is committing unfair labor practices…