University of California workers went on strike May 16 at the school's 10 campuses and five medical centers to protest job outsourcing. The strike involves university professional and technical employees represented by the UPTE-CWA 9119, as well as members of AFSCME Local 3299, which represents the university's service and patient care technical workers. It is union members' fifth strike in more than a year, and it is focused on their concerns about outsourcing, according to The Sacramento Bee. In a media advisory about the walkout, the AFSCME claims that UC has acted illegally with its privatization plans that allow jobs to be outsourced to contracting companies. "The University of California has bypassed its workers at every turn, refusing to meet and confer about plans to outsource middle-class jobs in California to poverty wage contractors," said AFSCME Local 3299 President Kathryn Lybarger. "By cutting workers out of decisions about who will be providing the services that UC patients and students rely on, it’s clear that UC is focused on one thing — paying its lowest wage workers even less." For instance, union leaders contend UC administrators won't bargain over plans to outsource ongoing work at a joint venture: a new rehabilitaiton hospital in Sacramento, Calif., that the school will own and operate with Kindred Healthcare, a Louisville, Ky.-based private equity company.
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