Thousands of union workers went on a one-day strike across all University of California (UC) campuses and medical centers on April 1, in response to what they consider unfair labor practices.
“We don’t want to be out here. We don’t want to be missing work. We want to be doing our work,” Amelia Cutten, a behavioral health counselor at UC Santa Cruz and union representative for health care workers at the school, told The Epoch Times. “We’re really out here for our patients, for our students, for the research, just blowing the whistle on the staffing crisis and requesting that UC come back and meaningfully bargain in a way to address the issues that we’ve raised.”…