Friday, November 14, 2003
Strike 6?
Some union folks write an article condemning UC labor practices. But they write it as if they're impartial advisors referring to "unrest" which is out of their control.
UC must cease going down its present path. It needs to truly improve its labor relations and desist from committing unfair labor practices. It also needs to leave the current “no strikes/no lockout” language in the union agreements that still have this clause as well as meet with the UAW to settle the contracts immediately. To do otherwise risks further unrest.
How stupid is that? How about "if you do otherwise, we'll strike some more"? No, no, it's inevitable, really. We have nothing to do with it. We're the union.
In the last three years, there have been four unfair labor practice strikes and two threatened unfair labor practice strikes at the university, involving a total of four unions. They collectively represent 40,000 workers, or 60 percent of the unionized workforce at UC. These strikes, undertaken to protest the university’s unlawful behavior, were very disruptive to the campuses and to students’ education.
Which is obviously 100% the fault of the university. Strikes are a force of nature, you see. We, the union, have nothing to do with them.
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