CCLC Executive Director Jeremy Goldberg addresses the striking workers.
Yesterday, we joined AFSCME Local 3299 in strike marches throughout the UCSB Campus. From Storke Tower to Admissions to the Chancellor’s office, we sent a message that no matter how the UC tries to do it, the workers will NOT allow them to get away with outsourcing their jobs. The UC, using tactics that go way beyond simple greed and into insidious illegality, spent over $345 million on outsourcing jobs to outside contractors in 2016, breaching their contract. They then increased the spending by 52% in the years since, up to $523 million. By doing this in secret, in clear breach of a contract, the UC is showing us that this wasn’t a decision made with the idea of just saving a few extra dollars that day, week, month or year. It’s about eroding the power of the workers. It sends a message not just to AFSCME, but to all of us, that they want to break organized labor. Unfortunately for them, the workers won’t break, the California Labor movement won’t break, and at UCSB, the Central Coast Labor movement won’t break. We will win, and will continue to stand shoulder to shoulder with the UC Workers until they they get a fair contract.
To keep track of the latest bargaining updates from AFSCME 3299, CLICK HERE.
Read about the last AFSCME 3299 strike at UCSB HERE
Santa Barbara mayor Cathy Murillo speaking in support of the workers
(Video) At the Office of the Chancellor
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