UC nurses cancel planned strike after reaching tentative deal with university
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A planned labor strike by University of California nurses has been called off after the university system and the nurses’ union reached a tentative deal on pay and benefits, both groups announced Sunday.The four-year deal, between UC and the California Nurses Assn., covers some 25,000 registered nurses working across 19 UC facilities.The two groups had been bargaining over a new contract since June.The deal follows another one announced on Nov.
8 between UC and the University Professional and Technical Employees union, which represents 21,000 healthcare, research and technical professionals across the UC system.Those groups had been negotiating a new contract for 17 months.
California The University of California and the union representing healthcare, research and technical employees reached a contract agreement, averting a possible strike.The nurses’ union had planned to strike Monday and Tuesday in solidarity with a third union, AFSCME 3299, which represents patient care technical workers, custodians, food service employees, security guards, secretaries and other workers at UC hospitals and campuses.Kristan Delmarty, a registered nurse at UCLA Santa Monica and member of the nurses association’s board of directors and bargaining team, said the union “organized for and won important patient protections” in the deal — which she said nurses will vote to approve this week.“Going into this round of bargaining, it was our priority to ensure UC nurses were given the resources to care for our patients and ourselves after years of short-staffing and under-resourcing,” she said.“We achieved our goal and now we stand together with our AFSCME colleagues, whose essential work demands the same resources guaranteed by a fair contract.”The nurses association said thousands of its members still planned to join AFSCME picket lines “while not on work time.” Business Th...