OC Weekly – AFSCME 3299

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Oct 12th, 2017

Registered Nurses Say Patient Safety Sparks Today’s UCI Medical Center Rally

The rallies across California are aimed at drawing attention to the hospitals prioritizing profits over patient care, according to the the California Nurses Association/National...

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Nov 17th, 2016

Targeted UC Irvine Medical Center Workers Hold Yet Another Rally Today

Students, health workers, union officials and community leaders plan to demonstrate outside UC Irvine Medical Center to protest recently announced staffing cuts that have already...

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Oct 18th, 2016

UC Irvine Health Workers to Picket Job Losses as Profits are Said to Soar

Claiming that their jobs are being eliminated even though profits are up and the facility is understaffed, health workers, students and worker union supporters plan to rally and...

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Oct 12th, 2016

UCI Medical Center CEO Snottily Explains Massive Worker Layoffs During Town Hall

UC Irvine Medical Center workers in Orange are still tense a week after the start of a massive layoff of 175 positions. Dr. Howard Federoff, CEO of UC Irvine Health, delivered a...

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Nov 21st, 2013

Hundreds of Workers, Students Strike At UC Irvine

Activists chanting "si, se puede" and "UC, escucha, estamos en la lucha" drowned out the traditional "$2 boba" chants at UC Irvine yesterday as workers, students and their...

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Oct 9th, 2013

UC Irvine Medical Center Workers Ready for Strike Vote

Patient care workers at University of California hospitals, including UC Irvine Medical Center in Orange, will be taking a strike vote Oct. 28-30, their union (and the UC's...

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Apr 23rd, 2013

UCI Medical Center Workers Prepare for Strike Vote; UC Says Union Ducking Pension Reform

Thirteen thousand patient care technical workers from the University of California's $6.9 billion medical system, which includes UC Irvine and UCI Medical Center in Orange, will...