“Subject to bargaining with your union.” That’s a phrase UC’s administrative
professionals never hear. Some 100,000 other UC employees – among them researchers, health care professionals, technical workers, lecturers, librarians, nurses, clericals and service workers – elect representatives to bargain with UC over their wages, benefits and terms of employment. Currently, UC’s administrative professionals are not entitled to do the same.
What difference does a union make?
- UC staff covered by a union contract have negotiated increases of 3 to 5% for 2008-2009, but we received no cost of living or merit increases this year.
- We’ll soon be required to make new contributions to our pensions – essentially, that amounts to a pay cut – with no input into the plan.
- UC’s unionized staff have better layoff protections, career development, health and safety, and reclassification protections – and they’re guaranteed under a union contract.
Make your voice heard to secure our future. Many of us are working for collective bargaining rights with UPTE-CWA, the union for professional employees, which already represents 12,000 UC professional and technical employees systemwide. Signing the card below indicates your support for a union drive in the administrative professionals unit in the near future. In such a campaign, if a majority of administrative professionals support the union, UC will have to sit down and negotiate. Please join us! |