Labor Archive
The demonstration coincided with AFSCME Local 3299's statewide delegations to all five UC medical center CEOs and all ten campus Chancellors.
UC employees represented by AFSCME held statewide pickets at all five UC medical centers and 10 campuses.
Teaching assistants and other members of UAW Local 2865 held a grade-in at the Baytree Plaza at UC Santa Cruz as part of a statewide action.
Teaching assistants at UC Santa Cruz held a rally and sick-in to let the University of California know that we are sick of attacks on our health care.
The Student/Farmworker Alliance announced that May 11th and 12th would be Days of Action vs. Burger King calling on the world's #2 burger chain to take responsibility for the conditions of farmworkers in the fields.
Activists played music and held signs calling on McDonald’s to support justice for farmworkers.
AFSCME workers and students at UC Santa Cruz held a rally in the Baytree Plaza and then marched to the base of campus.
1,800 Santa Cruz County workers launched a one-day strike against the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors.
On March 1, 2006, students demonstrated at the base of UC Santa Cruz to demand that the UC comply with their "Code of Conduct" Policy adapted in 1999 to only sell products produced under safe and fair working conditions.