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		<title>Sacramento higher-ed protest leads to 72 arrests</title>
		<link>http://www.afscme3299.org/2012/03/06/sacramento-higher-ed-protest-leads-to-72-arrests/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 08:46:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Police arrested at least 72 protesters who had taken over the Rotunda of the state Capitol on Monday to demand an end to higher education cuts and passage of a proposed "millionaires tax."]]></description>
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		<title>Sac Bee Viewpoints: Raising the retirement age increases inequality</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 07:05:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There's a lot of talk these days about raising the retirement age for younger workers. In Washington, Congress is considering further raising the eligibility age for Medicare and full Social Security benefits.]]></description>
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		<title>Yee Introduces Bill to Stop Higher Education Executive Pay Hikes</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 20:58:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<strong>SACRAMENTO</strong> – Last year, both the University of California and the California State University hiked executives’ pay while raising student fees. Today, Senator Leland Yee (D-San Francisco) will introduce legislation to prohibit pay raises for top university administrators during bad budget years or when student fees are increased. ]]></description>
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		<title>Trashed</title>
		<link>http://www.afscme3299.org/2011/12/14/trashed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 20:36:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At UC Berkeley, recyclables end up in the landfill, outdoor plazas are drowning in litter, and gardeners spend their days collecting garbage. Welcome to the world's greenest university.]]></description>
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		<title>Letter from President Kathryn Lybarger</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 19:48:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Congratulations on a historic victory! Last Thursday, the overwhelming majority of the membership voted to put members first in our union. In an unprecedented moment of rank and file union democracy, 66% spoke out for real change – for better representation, contracts and a real voice in our union. Nearly 4600 members voted in the election, a first in our local’s history!]]></description>
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		<title>Supporting Our Supporters</title>
		<link>http://www.afscme3299.org/2011/10/20/supporting-our-supporters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 17:59:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If there were no workers on campus, the East Field would be dry, dining halls would serve fewer customers and bathrooms would never be cleaned. If there were no workers on campus at UC Santa Cruz, the nine other UCs, the five medical centers and other UC facilities, these facilities would not function at their current standards — in fact, they wouldn’t function at all.]]></description>
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		<title>UCI To Hire Custodians In-house Next Spring</title>
		<link>http://www.afscme3299.org/2011/10/17/uci-to-hire-custodians-in-house-next-spring/</link>
		<comments>http://www.afscme3299.org/2011/10/17/uci-to-hire-custodians-in-house-next-spring/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 05:26:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<strong>Irvine, Calif.,</strong> Oct. 17, 2011 – California Irvine and AFSCME Local 3299 announced today (Oct. 17, 2011) an agreement to complete the in-sourcing of custodial duties on campus.  

The university will hire 94 full-time custodians by mid-April 2012.  Many of these individuals have been working on campus through an outside contractor to clean classrooms, the recreation facility, offices and labs. ]]></description>
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		<title>Capitol Report &#8211; Week of October 10, 2011</title>
		<link>http://www.afscme3299.org/2011/10/10/capitol-report-week-of-october-10-2011/</link>
		<comments>http://www.afscme3299.org/2011/10/10/capitol-report-week-of-october-10-2011/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 01:19:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gail Price]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[SACRAMENTO— Gov. Jerry Brown signed Senate Bill 857 which protects workers who are forced to go on strike. In 2008, Local 3299 went on strike to win one of the strongest contracts in UC’s history.]]></description>
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		<title>Actions Push UC to Honor Contracts &amp; More</title>
		<link>http://www.afscme3299.org/2011/09/22/actions-push-uc-to-honor-contracts-more/</link>
		<comments>http://www.afscme3299.org/2011/09/22/actions-push-uc-to-honor-contracts-more/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 23:18:27 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Actions]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[After nearly a year of actions on campuses across the state, pushing the UC Regents and exercising our political power in Sacramento, AFSCME 3299 members forced UC not only to honor our contracts but also won more improvements.]]></description>
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		<title>Workers, Students Praise Senate Rejection of David Crane As UC Regent</title>
		<link>http://www.afscme3299.org/2011/09/22/workers-students-praise-senate-rejection-of-david-crane-as-uc-regent/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 20:44:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[University of California employees and students joined together today to applaud the fact that no action was taken on the confirmation of David Crane, a controversial last minute appointment to the UC Board of Regents made by former-governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, prior to the Senate’s recess earlier this month.  With the state legislature now in recess it is highly unlikely any action will be taken in time to confirm Crane to the UC Board of Regents as required by the state’s constitution.]]></description>
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