Thousands of University of California workers start 3-day strike over pay

NBC "News" ^ | May 7, 2018 | by AP

[Oldeconomybuyer]

[Jim W N]

3-day strike for over pay?

Unions - they’ll strike no matter what.

[antidisestablishment]

Hope it lasts more than 3 days! If it saves one child...

[Cicero]

How much do they get? A thousand dollars a day?

(I’m not visiting the rest of the article at NBC.)

[boycott]

We’d all be better off if they stayed on strike forever.

[Seaplaner]

Before any discussion of pay for UC employees, conduct a thorough, comprehensive financial audit of all UC campuses and employees. Where the money comes from, where it goes, to whom it goes, what it is used for. Publish the results in unambiguous, detailed form, and provide a forum for public inquiry and provide responses to questions. The results might be a bit scary.

BTW, union issues seem to appear before elections during GOP administrations, do they not?

[Obadiah]

Hey, they gotta pay for the solar panels the state mandated on their new homes!

[Obadiah]

Sorry fellow CA FReepers, but looking from the outside, California looks like a real basket case.

[poinq]

just the beginning. Unions don’t care how much debt a state has.

[Freee-dame]

Typical of articles about a union strike, there is no mention of how much they earn currently. It does say ... at or above market rates. They are angry about contract workers, probably non-union and costing the taxpayers far less.

[Red Badger]

[Red Badger]

Replace them with illega.......er, uh, um,......undocumented workers...........dreamers.................

[Joe 6-pack]

I guess they don’t believe college should be free for everybody. You mean the employees want to be paid? They must not care very much for the children.

[Heff]

Too bad it wasn’t the Professors.... it would have improved the High Education system in California exponentially.

[Steamburg]

Let the teaching staff take over their duties. It’s not like the faculty lounge is the only refuge for those socialists.

[Responsibility2nd]

They should mop floors for BART.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/BART-reining-in-janitor-overtime-after-public-12873558.php

Poor bastids there make over $100k per year.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

I have to say this is one time I have sympathy for the striking "prols". The guy who mows the campus lawn does more honest work than any of the $300K /year "professors" teaching "transgender studies" or "chicano studies".

The guy who mows lawn actually does something useful.
 

[Paladin2]

Power to the People.

The faculty and admins ARE the Bourgeoisie.

[ColdOne]

I say strike for at least a year, after all it is for the children.

[rktman]

Oh, the afscume Union. Probably want the same pay those BART cutodians were getting. $100k plus another $100k in OT. Something like that. But hey, it ain’t cheap to live in the Bay Area.