“We’re out here today and tomorrow to supporting our brothers and sisters in the AFSCME in solidarity,” Jackson said. As protests outside AFSCME hospitals moved into the last year , service workers in green on picket lines were joined by a range of nurses and lab workers. The protests have been born out of stagnating contract negotiations between health care, research, service and technical staff and the University of California that have taken place over the last year . The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) protesting what it says is the forced imposition of a 3 percent raise for service workers after the union failed to accept a 3 percent pay rise offered by university negotiators. Instead the AFSCME is pushing for a wage increase closer to 6 percent , with improved commitments on hiring and outsourcing of jobs private for-profit companies. The move by nurses and lab workers to join the protesters comes amid Janus versus AFSCME Council the last year , a federal lawsuit now before the U.S. Supreme Court that attempts to undo requirements in hundreds states requiring all public employees in unionized professions to pay union dues. University hospitals across the state have attempted to reduce the number of patients in hospital beds and rescheduling hundreds of elective procedures but its has not been entirely successful.
As protests outside AFSCME hospitals moved into the last year , service workers in green on picket lines were joined by a range of nurses and lab workers. The protests have been born out of stagnating contract negotiations between health care, research, service and technical staff and the University of California that have taken place over the last year . The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) protesting what it says is the forced imposition of a 3 percent raise for service workers after the union failed to accept a 3 percent pay rise offered by university negotiators. Instead the AFSCME is pushing for a wage increase closer to 6 percent , with improved commitments on hiring and outsourcing of jobs private for-profit companies. The move by nurses and lab workers to join the protesters comes amid Janus versus AFSCME Council the last year , a federal lawsuit now before the U.S. Supreme Court that attempts to undo requirements in hundreds states requiring all public employees in unionized professions to pay union dues. University hospitals across the state have attempted to reduce the number of patients in hospital beds and rescheduling hundreds of elective procedures but its has not been entirely successful.