U.C. Davis Service Workers Vote to Strike

[struggle4progress]

University of California service workers have voted overwhelmingly to strike for better wages.

The vote among approximately 7,300 university and medical center workers across the state was 92 percent in favor of striking.

Drivers, housekeepers, custodians and groundskeepers belonging to the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees union have not had a raise in three years. Hourly wages for service workers range from a minimum $9.93 for custodians up to a top $14.40 for drivers.

Besides more money, AFSCME wants an agreement that guarantees the maximum hourly pay after a specific amount of time employed. <snip>

http://www.news10.net/storyfull1.asp?id=9789

[CountAllVotes]

1. good for them!

What a shock, their wages haven't gone up in damn near 20 years!

I'd be on that picket line myself!

:kick:

[whistle]

2. How many strikes are going on or about to begin in the country?

...This is beginning to feel like the 1950's and 1960's and although I was very young the 1940's after WWII. Labor needs to be heard, the administration and virtually all policy by Bush has been so anti labor/anti-worker. There needs to be a ground swell of resistance from the workers all over the country to protest this treatment and out-right hostility to the American working class in all occupations. The largest organization ought to happen in health-care and services not so much for pay increases as for job security issues and working conditions. United the workers are strong, divided every worker looses.

[Massachusetts]

3. Bravo! Support UNIONS!