UC seeks progress in contract negotiations with UPTE
Since bargaining began in mid-December, the University of California has been frustrated with the progress of negotiations with UPTE and believes that negotiations have yielded little movement toward a new contract covering 8,600 research and technical employees.
The March 20-22, 2013 bargaining session at UC Santa Cruz followed this pattern. The University and union had less face-to-face time than planned, either because UPTE could not meet at the scheduled time or because UPTE left a bargaining session early. In total, the...