More Striking! (CUE This Time)
Berkeley NewsCenter: (links to previous articles about the issues that led to this strike at the previous link)

The Coalition of University Employees (CUE) union, representing clerical workers at the University of California, has announced a three-day strike at UC Berkeley and other University of California campuses beginning Monday, June 13.

The Berkeley campus will remain open, and every effort is being made to ensure campus operations continue with as little disruption as possible. Campus employees are required to be at work as scheduled and to perform work as assigned. Offices will be open, and summer school courses will be taught. If individuals encounter a picket line, the law protects their right to cross it.

CUE represents 16,500 people throughout the UC system, including 1,549 clerical workers on the UC Berkeley campus. The contract for the affected workers expired on Sept. 30, 2004.

CUE last conducted a strike in 2002. It lasted three days and was held before reaching agreement with UC. Among CUE's key issues are wages, benefits and parking costs.

I tried to follow the AFSCME negotations pretty closely, reading over their demands and the university offers. This is like the third strike in the last couple of months, and I haven't been following what has been happening with CUE, so I have no idea who is being more unreasonable here.Email This Post!