UC’s subcontractors – AFSCME 3299

Press Releases

Mar 22nd, 2016

RELEASE: Insourcing Agreement Brings End to Speaker’s Boycott at UC Berkeley

Oakland: More than six weeks after a speaker’s boycott was called by the University of California’s largest employee union, AFSCME 3299, UC Berkeley agreed on Friday to offer...

News

Feb 8th, 2016

Union calls for speaker’s boycott, urging improved treatment of subcontracted workers

A UC labor union is calling for a speaker’s boycott at UC Berkeley for the duration of the spring semester, urging the campus to improve its treatment of subcontracted...

News

Oct 16th, 2015

Students must fight for subcontracted workers’ rights

In a recently published LA Times article, Performance First Building Services, a private company employed by UC Berkeley, has come under fire for exploiting subcontracted...

News

Aug 31st, 2015

Workers, students call for insourcing of all subcontracted workers on campus

Several dozen students, workers and community members marched to various locations on campus and in the city Monday, delivering petitions calling for the insourcing of all...

Op-Ed

Aug 24th, 2015

UC and the new economic paradigm

At the heart of America's recurring problems with poverty, income inequality and race lies a major shift in how our economy is structured. Since 2009, so called "temporary" jobs...