Or maybe it doesn’t… At least not according to AFSCME officials who dispute the interpretation of the ruling.
According to Saturday’s San Francisco Chronicle:
“Judge Patrick Mahoney said in his ruling that the strike likely would cause irreparable injury to the university and the union was enjoined from “calling, engaging in, continuing, sanctioning, inducing, aiding, enticing, encouraging, abetting or assisting” employees from a strike or slowdown without adequate notice.”
Furthermore, the ruling prevents the union from:
“engaging in any strike, walkout, slowdown or strike-related work stoppage of any nature against the University of California without adequate notice of the exact dates of the strike.”
William Schlitz, spokesperson for AFSCME said:
“We are going on strike as planned. First and foremost, it is the workers’ constitutional right to strike.”
Mr. Schlitz told another news service:
“We’re confident this strike is legal… The reason we’re striking is because the university denies its moral responsibility to pay its workers.”
The union does not believe that its action would be in violation of the restraining order since the order enjoins the workers from striking without adequate notice or without giving exact strike dates. The union says it provided this notice on July 10 when it called for the July 14 strike.
Lakesha Harrison, who is the president of AFSCME interprets the ruling to mean that the union has to notify the university of the strike dates, something that it has already done.
She told the Davis Enterprise in Sunday’s paper:
“We’re in compliance… It’s our constitutional right to strike, and UC can’t take that away from us.”
On the other hand, the UC human relations communications coordinator, Nicole Savickas is under the impression that the ruling prohibits the union from striking until a week from Tuesday on July 22. The UC news release says that the university expects its employees to obey the order and report to work as scheduled.
However, the union is moving ahead with plans to strike starting at 7 am this morning, which ought to make for a pretty interesting day.
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—Doug Paul Davis reporting
You’ll never see the administrators or upper level management having to strike to get a raise or a contract. It’s unfortunate that UC pays it’s administrators way too much and can’t even give employees a reasonable increase. It doesn’t appear that they are asking for too much.
I applaud the workers!
You’ll never see the administrators or upper level management having to strike to get a raise or a contract. It’s unfortunate that UC pays it’s administrators way too much and can’t even give employees a reasonable increase. It doesn’t appear that they are asking for too much.
I applaud the workers!
You’ll never see the administrators or upper level management having to strike to get a raise or a contract. It’s unfortunate that UC pays it’s administrators way too much and can’t even give employees a reasonable increase. It doesn’t appear that they are asking for too much.
I applaud the workers!
You’ll never see the administrators or upper level management having to strike to get a raise or a contract. It’s unfortunate that UC pays it’s administrators way too much and can’t even give employees a reasonable increase. It doesn’t appear that they are asking for too much.
I applaud the workers!
The Sacramento Bee reports that,
“Union officials claim their wages have fallen behind those at other colleges, including California’s community college system. Many employees earn $10 an hour, which is as much as 25 percent less than comparable workers at other institutions are paid, the union said.” The Bee also says that negotiations have been under way for a year.
With UC being the leader in education and medicine there is no reason why they cannot pay their workers a decent wage.
Furthermore, during the year that they have been negotiating gas prices and the cost of living have increased substantially.
The Sacramento Bee reports that,
“Union officials claim their wages have fallen behind those at other colleges, including California’s community college system. Many employees earn $10 an hour, which is as much as 25 percent less than comparable workers at other institutions are paid, the union said.” The Bee also says that negotiations have been under way for a year.
With UC being the leader in education and medicine there is no reason why they cannot pay their workers a decent wage.
Furthermore, during the year that they have been negotiating gas prices and the cost of living have increased substantially.
The Sacramento Bee reports that,
“Union officials claim their wages have fallen behind those at other colleges, including California’s community college system. Many employees earn $10 an hour, which is as much as 25 percent less than comparable workers at other institutions are paid, the union said.” The Bee also says that negotiations have been under way for a year.
With UC being the leader in education and medicine there is no reason why they cannot pay their workers a decent wage.
Furthermore, during the year that they have been negotiating gas prices and the cost of living have increased substantially.
The Sacramento Bee reports that,
“Union officials claim their wages have fallen behind those at other colleges, including California’s community college system. Many employees earn $10 an hour, which is as much as 25 percent less than comparable workers at other institutions are paid, the union said.” The Bee also says that negotiations have been under way for a year.
With UC being the leader in education and medicine there is no reason why they cannot pay their workers a decent wage.
Furthermore, during the year that they have been negotiating gas prices and the cost of living have increased substantially.
I strongly support the medical care workers and their right to strike. Did I read your past comments correctly? For the last 12 months they have been asking UCDMC for a raise in pay and they have received nothing in return!!! You would think that 1 year would have been more than enough advance notice prior to them being forced to strike.
Also, isn’t UC Davis making profits of somewhere in the hundreds of millions of dollars? This information should be easy to find. Futhermore, they still pay their upper management personnel millions of dollars in bonuses and free perks while the workers have to exist on stravation wages.
I strongly support the medical care workers and their right to strike. Did I read your past comments correctly? For the last 12 months they have been asking UCDMC for a raise in pay and they have received nothing in return!!! You would think that 1 year would have been more than enough advance notice prior to them being forced to strike.
Also, isn’t UC Davis making profits of somewhere in the hundreds of millions of dollars? This information should be easy to find. Futhermore, they still pay their upper management personnel millions of dollars in bonuses and free perks while the workers have to exist on stravation wages.
I strongly support the medical care workers and their right to strike. Did I read your past comments correctly? For the last 12 months they have been asking UCDMC for a raise in pay and they have received nothing in return!!! You would think that 1 year would have been more than enough advance notice prior to them being forced to strike.
Also, isn’t UC Davis making profits of somewhere in the hundreds of millions of dollars? This information should be easy to find. Futhermore, they still pay their upper management personnel millions of dollars in bonuses and free perks while the workers have to exist on stravation wages.
I strongly support the medical care workers and their right to strike. Did I read your past comments correctly? For the last 12 months they have been asking UCDMC for a raise in pay and they have received nothing in return!!! You would think that 1 year would have been more than enough advance notice prior to them being forced to strike.
Also, isn’t UC Davis making profits of somewhere in the hundreds of millions of dollars? This information should be easy to find. Futhermore, they still pay their upper management personnel millions of dollars in bonuses and free perks while the workers have to exist on stravation wages.