Take Back UC
Take Back UC Patient Care Student Services Worker Issues Community Support


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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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I support Patient Care and Service workers at UC and want to be kept up to date on the campaign to Take Back UC! :

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UC is one of the largest employers in California, but does not pay its workers family-sustaining wages. The findings of Failing California’s Communities: How the University of California’s Low Wages Affect Surrounding Cities and Neighborhoods by Center for Labor & Community Research and Partnership for Working Families shows how UC’s failure to pay a sustainable, market wage perpetuates poverty in our communities.

The report finds that improving wages for UC workers to the market rate would provide huge economic benefits to the struggling communities where its lowest paid workers live. The statewide impact would include:

  • $147 million more in spending on local goods and services;
  • $23 million in additional local business earnings;
  • $9 million in increased state and local tax revenue; and
  • Nearly 900 new jobs.

For the full text of the report, including additional findings, click here:
Failing California’s Communities

We are 20,000 Patient Care and Service workers who are fighting to be treated like other hospital and community college workers. We are asking that UC start living up to the industry standards so we can recruit and retain the best qualified staff for our patients and students. We want market wages that will lift our families out of poverty and benefit our communities. We need:

  • A pay system that reward us for our years of service and commitment to the University
  • Wages that are comparable to other hospitals and community colleges
  • Guaranteed healthcare, pension and parking costs
  • A voice in our pension plan
  • Improvements to On-call Pay to be on par with other hospitals
  • Overtime Pay for hours we work after our regularly scheduled shift, like the state law requires
  • A baseline, minimum percentage of career workers at UC
  • All contracted workers becoming direct UC workers, including the out-sourced food service workers at UC Davis, with-in 60 days
  • No contracting-out of AFSCME represented jobs, new or existing

If UC agreed to our demands, it would be better for our patients, students and our families.


2008 Take Back UC: For Patients, Students and Families