UPTE Ratifies Contract for Close to 9,000 Employees

UPTE-CWA members in the research and technical units voted overwhelmingly in June to ratify a 2-year agreement with the University of California. The contract covers nearly 9,000 UC employees at 10 campuses, 5 medical centers and 1 national lab.

The contract features:

▪ Moving more than 4,000 employees to a step-based merit system from an arbitrary
open-range.
▪ First-ever severance pay at employee option. No forfeiture of rehire rights.
▪ Abolition of UC temporary employment pool category of floaters who are second-class
workers.
▪ New leaves for union business that will allow UPTE-CWA activists to come off the job
to build the union.
▪ The best raises of any campus employees.
▪ Best contract language available at UC on countless other articles.

For more information, see the UPTE-CWA website at www.upte.org.