AFSCME ANNOUNCES UC PATIENT CARE STRIKE LOCATION AND SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

ADVISORY—FOR SCHEDULING PURPOSES ONLY: May 20, 2013

Contacts: (Statewide UCD-Sac.) Todd Stenhouse, 916-397-1131/301-704-7854, [email protected]

(UCLA-Los Angeles) Kevin Brown, 609-220-8155, [email protected]

(UCSF-San Francisco) John Salsbury, 551-404-5448, [email protected]

(UCSD-San Diego) John Noonan, 612-267-0658, [email protected]

(UCI-Irvine) Keith Snodgrass, 510-967-1864, [email protected]

AFSCME ANNOUNCES UC PATIENT CARE STRIKE LOCATION AND SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Sympathy Strikers, Elected Officials, Students and Others to Join Patient Care Workers on Picket Line

Statewide: AFSCME 3299 today has announced the locations, schedule of events, and a list of expected dignitaries who will be joining members on picket lines in connection with this week’s Patient Care Technical Worker Strike at UC Medical Centers.

The strike includes nearly 13,000 Patient Care Technical Workers in the UC Hospital System, as well as Sympathy Strikers from the UC Hospital Service Unit represented by AFSCME 3299, and members of UPTE-CWA 9119. The Strike comes after nearly a year of stalled negotiations with UC Administrators over a range of issues, including patient safety, staffing levels at UC hospitals, and the increasing diversion of patient care resources into skyrocketing compensation packages for UC Health Executives.

Strike/Picket Times: Tuesday, May 21st from 6am to 11pm, Wednesday, May 22nd from 6am to 11pm.

Picket Locations, Rally Schedule, and Expected Dignitaries:

UC Davis Medical Center, 2315 Stockton Blvd., Sacramento

• Tuesday Rallies at 1 p.m. and 6:30 p.m.
• Wednesday Rallies at 1 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. (Local 3299 President Kathryn Lybarger will attend 6:30 p.m. rally.)
• Other Dignitaries Expected: Assemblymember Das Williams, Chair, Committee on Higher Education (Tuesday); Assemblymember Roger Dickinson, Chair, Committee on Banking and Finance (Wed. at 12:30 p.m.); Assemblymember Dr. Richard Pan, Chair, Committee on Health (TBD); Assemblymember Roger Hernández, Chair, Committee on Labor and Employment (Tues. at 1:30 p.m.); Kula Koenig, District Director for Assemblyman Dickinson (Tues. at 12:45 p.m.)

UC San Francisco Medical Center, 505 Parnassus Ave., San Francisco

• Tuesday Rally at 1:00 p.m.
• Wednesday Rally at 11:30 a.m. (AFSCME President Lee Saunders and Local 3299 President Kathryn Lybarger will attend.)
• Other Dignitaries Expected: San Francisco District 9 Supervisor David Campos (Tuesday); Cecilia Tran, Field Representative of Assemblymember Tom Ammiano (Tuesday 1 p.m.); Sen. Leland Yee, Chair, Senate Committee on Human Services (Wednesday at 11:45 a.m.)

UC Irvine Medical Center, 101 The City Dr. S, Orange

• Tuesday Rallies at 11:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. (Local 3299 President Kathryn Lybarger and AFSCME President Lee Saunders visit at 3 p.m.).
• Wednesday Rallies at 12:30 p.m. an 6 p.m.

UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center, 757 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles

• Tuesday Rally at 12 p.m. (AFSCME President Lee Saunders and Local 3299 President Kathryn Lybarger will attend.)
• Tuesday Rally at 6 p.m.
• Wednesday Rallies at 12 p.m. and 6 p.m.

UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center, 1250 16th St., Santa Monica

• Tuesday Rallies at 12 p.m. and 7 p.m.
• Wednesday Rallies at 12 p.m. only.

UC San Diego Hillcrest Medical Center, 200 West Arbor Dr., San Diego

• Tuesday Rallies at 11:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. (AFSCME President Lee Saunders to attend 6 p.m. rally.)
• Wednesday Rallies at 11:30 a.m. and 6 p.m.

UC San Diego Thornton Hospital, 9300 Campus Point Dr., La Jolla

• Tuesday Rallies at 11:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. (Local 3299 President Kathryn Lybarger to attend 6 p.m. rally.)
• Wednesday Rallies at 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.

UC Patient Care Technical Workers include Respiratory Therapists, Nursing Aides, Radiologists, Certified Nursing Assistants, MRI Technologists, Licensed Vocational Nurses, Surgical Technicians, Diagnostic Sonographers, Pathology Lab Technicians, Pharmacy Technicians, OR Technicians, and many others.