Take Back UC: Student Services

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Join us in Taking Back UC for Patients, Students, and Our Families!
Hundreds of political, clergy, faculty and community leaders have pledged their support to fight for justice at UC. To add your name to the growing list of supporters who are Taking Back UC, fill out the form below.

I support AFSCME 3299’s struggle for justice at the University of California.

UC must prioritize its patient care and service workers, in order to provide the high level of patient care and student services that Californians deserve.

UC belongs to all of us. Let’s take back OUR University!

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UC’s use of sub-contracted, student and temporary workers hurts our ability to provide the best student services.

When UC relies on temporary or contract employees to fill staffing needs, much of our time goes to training an ever-rotating and less dependable workforce instead of focusing of the services we provide for our students. Many times we work short-staffed because UC doesn’t prioritize full-time, career positions.

On many campuses working students are being hired to do the same jobs as our members for less pay and benefits.

Unrepresented, non-career jobs, including contracted-out work, creates a second class of workers at UC, usually with lower wages and benefits, which damages our ability to provide the best student services possible.

UC Davis is the last UC campus or medical center to still contract-out its food services. Workers at UC Davis, who currently work for the multinational corporation, Sodexho, are fighting to become direct UC workers and full members of the UC community.
Across the state, we have been working closely with student governments who have passed resolutions to insist that UC do its part to help us provide the best services possible by agreeing to a good contract.

For full text of resolutions click here:

ASUCSD Resolution
ASUCD Resolution
UCSC Student Union Assembly

Across the UC system, the decision to contract out services is made behind closed doors with student services minimal public scrutiny. SB1596 provides for more transparency and accountability in this process. For example, at UC Davis the food service contract with Sodexho has been in place for decades with minimal public oversight and has not been put out to bid for the past 10 years. In fact, several years ago when the public was scrutinizing the impacts of the Sodexho contract on the community, UC announced a closed-door decision to extend the contract for another 6 years. This extension coincided with a multi-million dollar investment in the UC Davis campus from the Sodexho Corporation.

Over the last year, the public has been once again scrutinizing the impacts of Sodexho on the community. A report released by the Progressive Faculty Group at UC Davis finds that these contracted-out workers are struggling to make ends meet on low wages, laboring under hazardous working conditions, and are being treated with disrespect by their supervisors and management. For the full report, please click here

2008 Take Back UC: For Patients, Students and Families