{"id":658892,"date":"2013-05-17T18:52:27","date_gmt":"2013-05-17T22:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom.ucla.edu\/portal\/ucla\/latest-news-on-planned-strike-246181.aspx"},"modified":"2013-05-17T18:52:27","modified_gmt":"2013-05-17T22:52:27","slug":"latest-news-on-planned-strike-by-patient-care-workers-unions-at-uc-ucla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/658892","title":{"rendered":"Latest news on planned strike by patient-care workers unions at UC, UCLA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><em>The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) union, which represents more than 12,500 University of California patient care employees, has asked its members to strike at UC medical centers&nbsp;May 21&ndash;22. <\/em><em>AFSCME-represented service workers and members of the University Professional and Technical Employees (UPTE) union, which represents about 3,300 UC health care professionals, are expected to hold sympathy strikes.<\/em><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><strong>Please check back at this page for updates.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><strong>May 17:<\/strong> UC announced that the California Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.universityofcalifornia.edu\/news\/article\/29498\"><strong>will seek a temporary restraining order <\/strong><\/a>in Sacramento Superior Court on Monday, May 20, to curtail the number striking employees represented by two unions at UC&#8217;s five medical centers.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><strong>May 17:<\/strong> UC issued a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.universityofcalifornia.edu\/news\/article\/29504\"><strong>statement by Dr. John Stobo<\/strong><\/a>, UC senior vice president for health sciences and services, about the human impact of the strike scheduled for May 21&ndash;22 at UC medical centers.<\/div>\n<div><em>&nbsp;<\/em><\/div>\n<div><strong>May 10:<\/strong> UC announced it would <a href=\"http:\/\/www.universityofcalifornia.edu\/news\/article\/29464\"><strong>seek a restraining order<\/strong><\/a> against the&nbsp;AFSCME, in response to an announcement from the union that it was asking UC patient care and service employees to strike at UC medical centers May 21&ndash;22.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><strong>May 8:<\/strong> The UCLA Health System <a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom.ucla.edu\/portal\/ucla\/ucla-health-system-statement-in-245932.aspx\"><strong>issued a statement <\/strong><\/a>regarding AFSCME&#8217;s announcement that it would ask the UC patient care and service employees it represents at UCLA Health System hospitals and clinics to strike. (Statement updated May 14.)<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><strong>Additional materials:<\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"line-height: 0.5;\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/ucal.us\/PatientCareTechs\"><strong>Details about UC&ndash;AFSCME negotiations<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom.ucla.edu\/rss.ashx?id=706245\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) union, which represents more than 12,500 University of California patient care employees, has asked its members to strike at UC medical centers&nbsp;May 21&ndash;22. AFSCME-represented service workers and members of the University Professional and Technical Employees (UPTE) union, which represents about 3,300 UC health care professionals, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-658892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}