Vol. 80/No. 47 December 19, 2016
—ON THE PICKET LINE—
Maggie Trowe, Editor
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This column gives a voice to those engaged in battle and building solidarity today — including strikers at Momentive, California port truckers fighting to be classified as workers, not owners, and United Auto Workers members locked out by Honeywell in Indiana. I invite those involved in workers’ battles to contact me at 306 W. 37th St., 13th Floor, New York, NY 10018; or (212) 244-4899; or themilitant@mac.com. We’ll work together to ensure your story is told.
— Maggie Trowe
Univ. of Calif. Teamsters strike one day in Los Angeles, San Diego
LOS ANGELES — Electricians, plumbers, carpenters, painters, service engineers, elevator mechanics and other workers represented by Teamsters Local 2010 recently conducted one-day strikes at two University of California locations. They have been working without a contract for four years.Nearly 600 Teamsters picketed the UCLA campus and UCLA Health Systems hospital in the Westwood community of Los Angeles Nov. 16.
The next day over 200 Teamsters from 15 job classifications picketed several locations at the U.C. San Diego campus in La Jolla and the UCSD Health Systems hospital in the Hillcrest community of San Diego.
The pickets allowed patients, emergency vehicles and medical supplies through the picket lines in San Diego, but turned away construction, food service and laundry trucks.
“UCLA skilled trades workers are paid as much as $10 an hour below prevailing wage in the area,” Local 2010’s website reports.
Members of other campus unions, including hospital and facilities workers, technical employees, teaching assistants and professors joined the picket lines.
The contract of some 14,000 administrative and support workers, also members of Local 2010, at the 10 University of California campuses expired Nov. 30.
— Bill Warrick
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