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Jan 8th, 2024
PRESIDENT Michael Avant is a Patient Transporter from UCSD. Michael was born and raised in East St Louis, Illinois. He comes from a long and strong line of union fighters. Both...
For the past two decades, I’ve been proud to fight and win alongside every member of Local 3299. Now, as I begin my term as your new Union President I wanted to re-introduce...
Nov 28th, 2023
We strongly support a permanent ceasefire in Gaza. We call for humanitarian aid and the release of all hostages and denounce the violence inflicted upon both Palestinian and...
Sep 4th, 2023
The rent is too high, and the pay is too low. Few phrases better illustrate the dynamics of today’s labor market. The wage/housing imbalance and income inequality that...
Aug 29th, 2023
AFSCME Local 3299 is a democratic union that is run by and for members who work at the University of California. The Executive Board is our highest decision-making body and is...
Jul 24th, 2023
A new study by researchers with the University of California’s largest employee union has found that inflation adjusted wages for UC’s lowest paid and most demographically...
Jun 22nd, 2023
For Maya Burr, our current political moment calls on us to have each other’s backs. “In the face of being targeted so aggressively in so many states,” they declare, “I am...
“For me, Pride is being able to be the person I needed growing up,” declares Andrew Tallett, a Guest Services Screening Representative at UCSF Mission Bay. He adds, “Pride...
Jun 15th, 2023
“Our union helped me when I was unfairly put on disciplinary leave in 2010,” remembers Agnes Castro, a Custodian at UCSF Medical Center at Mount Zion. An investigation...
