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  • Union picket line stops UC speaker

    05/10/2006 8:51:00 PM PDT · by SmithL · 11 replies · 404+ views
    Contra Costa Time ^ | 5/10/6 | Matt Krupnick
    BERKELEY - Several thousand UC Berkeley graduates and their families flocked to the university's Hearst Greek Theatre for Wednesday's commencement convocation, only to have their graduation speaker leave campus rather than cross a picket line. California Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez, D-Los Angeles, declined to speak while 15 to 20 members of the union representing University of California service workers demonstrated outside the theater to protest low wages for UC custodians. "The speaker doesn't cross picket lines," said Nunez spokesman Richard Stapler. UC Chancellor Robert Birgeneau stepped up as the substitute speaker. Leaders of the American Federation of State, County and...
  • Janitors Strike Night Shift at UM Coral Gables Campus; (Univ of Miami Pres Donna Shalala)

    02/28/2006 10:25:43 PM PST · by bd476 · 20 replies · 431+ views
    Yahoo Business News ^ | February 28, 2006
    MIAMI, Feb. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Night shift janitors at the Coral Gables Campus of the University of Miami walked off the job tonight in the first wave of an escalating strike to protest unfair labor practices committed by UNICCO. PHOTO OP: Janitors will be walking the picket line across the Ponce de Leon and Stanford entrance to the University starting at 7:30 a.m. Wednesday morning. At 11:30 striking janitors will attend a mass at the St. Augustine Catholic Church, 1400 Miller Road in Coral Gables. "We'd rather not be here. We want to be treated with respect and dignity. That's...