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AFSCME on Strike During New Student Orientations at UCSC
Incoming UC Santa Cruz students and their families got an official orientation to college on July 17th while campus service workers were striking for the fourth day in a row. Since 2004, the Student and Worker Coalition for Justice (SWCJ) at UC Santa Cruz has been working to spread awareness and solidarity with the hardest-working and lowest-paid employees at the University of California (UC). In the last year alone, the demand to end poverty wages at the UC has been carried far and wide, including meetings of the UC Regents, dorms, dinning halls and classrooms, an alumni fundraiser luncheon, a $1,000 a plate dinner with Chancellor George Bluementhal, the Chancellor's inauguration, Highway 1, as well as to representatives in Sacramento. Service workers are vital to the UC, however AFSCME, the union representing the workers, reports that they are nowhere near reaching a fair settlement with the UC.
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A DJ spins Reggaetón while workers, students and other community members picket in the intersection of Bay and High at the base of UC Santa Cruz.
To view photos and video from earlier in the day, see:
Day 4 of AFSCME HUELGA at ucsc
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/07/17/18517144.php
For more information on the strike by The American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Local 3299, check out:
8,500 UC Service Workers on Five-Day Strike
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/07/03/18513200.php
To view photos and video from earlier in the day, see:
Day 4 of AFSCME HUELGA at ucsc
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/07/17/18517144.php
For more information on the strike by The American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Local 3299, check out:
8,500 UC Service Workers on Five-Day Strike
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/07/03/18513200.php
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Another way to get on the invite list...
Sat, Jul 19, 2008 11:43AM
Bradley - read more closely
Sat, Jul 19, 2008 9:03AM
Thanks
Fri, Jul 18, 2008 1:40PM
You're misreading.
Fri, Jul 18, 2008 1:19PM
Then how did the dinner raise tens of thousands of dollars?
Fri, Jul 18, 2008 12:57PM
I'll tell you how you qualify for an invitation
Fri, Jul 18, 2008 12:49PM
Free Fundraiser
Fri, Jul 18, 2008 12:26PM
Wrong. Check your facts Bradley
Fri, Jul 18, 2008 12:04PM
Ushering
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