UPTE-CWA Local 9119

UPTE-CWA 9119 and UC reach tentative contract agreement The University of California and labor union University Professional and Technical Employees CWA 9119 announced a tentative agreement on terms for a new contract on Nov. 8, after 17 months of bargaini...

Seventeen months of bargaining. Years of organizing. No longer tentative, now ratified by 98 percent of UPTE members! #UC #ResetUCPriorities #UnionStrong

Seventeen months of bargaining. Years of organizing. One goal: reset UC's priorities to better serve all Californians. By 98%, UPTE members have officially ratified our next contract.

Final day to vote! This TA delivers the biggest raises UPTE has ever won, blocks major PPO premium hikes for all pay bands/coverage levels, and even lowers 2026 UC Blue & Gold plan costs vs today. To lock it in, we must approve it—vote YES now here: upte.org/vote

#UC #ResetUCPriorities #UnionStrong

I am overjoyed that I will be able to afford a safe place to sleep close enough to commute to my job at UCSF. Let’s carry on together, like we have from the beginning, toward ratifying this historic agreement by voting YES. Learn more: upte.org/updates/how-...

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Solidarity forever with AFSCME 3299! #UnionStrong #UC #ResetUCPriorities

One day longer, one day stronger! Solidarity with our AFSCME 3299 siblings while they strike for a fair contract. #UnionStrong #UC #ResetUCPriorities

Solidarity forever, AFSCME 3299! #UnionStrong #UC

Come rain or shine, we stand in solidarity with our AFSCME 3299 siblings as they fight for a fair contract! #UnionStrong #UC

While we’re pleased to have reached a tentative agreement, our AFSCME 3299 siblings continue to fight! Join them before/after work or during breaks today and tomorrow, and be sure to cast your ballot on our TA at UPTE.org/vote

WE WON!!!

The US District Court for the Northern District of California has issued a preliminary injunction in AAUP et al v. Trump et al (the wall to wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of Title VI to reshape the University of California system.

Read the order here:

FYI: UC's 2026 Blue & Gold and Kaiser premiums displayed in UC's Open Enrollment and Alex tools are inaccurate. Visit upte.org/premiums for the right information based on our TA, and vote to ratify our TA at upte.org/vote. ✅

UPTE members: make your voice heard! Your bargaining team unanimously recommends a YES vote on our tentative agreement with UC. Voting ends Thu, Nov 20. A YES means implementing these gains ASAP. Vote YES to ratify: upte.org/vote

#UC #ResetUCPriorities #UnionStrong

17 months later, UPTE and UC arrive at tentative agreement days after strike announcement University Professional and Technical Employees CWA Local 9119 struck a tentative agreement Saturday with the University of California after 17 months of negotiation and only two days after declaring ...

“The bargaining team is really enthusiastically and unanimously recommending a ‘yes’ in the ratification vote. Our goal has always been to get a fair contract, not to go on strike. So we are just really grateful that we’re in this situation.” #UC #UnionStrong

UC Technical Workers Union Reaches Deal, Cancels Strike Next Week UPTE said this agreement is a “major victory” for union members, earning them a pay increase and job security.

"Our tentative agreement is a hard-won victory for 21,000 healthcare, research, and technical professionals across UC - and one that will benefit millions of UC patients and students, as well as people across the world who benefit from UC’s cutting-edge research."

RSVP for the UPTE Tentative Agreement town hall tomorrow at noon on Zoom: upte.org/TAtownhall 💻

UPTE’s 2025 TA wins across our priority “buckets”: fair pay, work-life balance, job security & advancement. Thanks to members & reps who picketed and organized across hospitals, campuses & clinics—uniting 21,000 workers. TA summary: upte.org/summary

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Tentative agreement on UC contract reached—UPTE strike canceled! — UPTE-CWA 9119 UPTE and the University of California have reached a Tentative Agreement (TA) after the mediator brought us back into communications following days of mediation. This is a major victory for UP...

Our tentative agreement is a major victory for UPTE members across the University of California system and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. #UC #ResetUCPriorities #LBNL #BerkeleyLab

UPTE members: Check your inbox. 📧👀

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Details about the agreement and a timeline for ratification will be released shortly. Congratulations to all of our members, leaders, and allies who made this possible! 2/2. #UC #UnionStrong

🟦STATEMENT:🟦 After being brought back together by our mediator, UPTE and UC reached a Tentative Agreement early this morning after another marathon mediation session. We have rescinded our strike notice, pending membership ratification. 1/2. #UC #UnionStrong

How does a public institution such as UC justify new hospitals with an eye-popping price tag while simultaneously laying off the very workers needed to staff them? Read our full report here: upte.org/research

#UC #ResetUCPriorities #StrikeReady

UC is pouring billions into hospital projects—$20.8 billion in active projects, with another $31.6 billion planned—while laying off hundreds of frontline staff. Our report shows significant cost overruns. We are ready to fight for safe staffing, patient care, and fair pay. #UC

ICYMI: UPTE members are READY TO STRIKE on 11/17 & 11/18! We rallied at UCLA today and proved yet again that we are ready to do what it takes to reset UC's priorities and end the staffing crisis that endangers our patients, students, and research. RSVP now: upte.org/rsvp

Staff at the @ucdavisvetmed.bsky.social Veterinary Genetics Lab are #StrikeReady! 🐶 🐴 🐑

These Oncology and Investigational Drug Pharmacists are #StrikeReady!
@uofcalifornia.bsky.social, we don't want to hit the picket lines again, but believe that we will if that's what it takes 💪 💪 💪

University of California RNs announce sympathy strike University of California (UC) registered nurses will walk the picket lines Monday, Nov. 17 and Tuesday, Nov. 18 in a sympathy strike with members of AFSCME 3299 and UPTE-CWA.

UC nurses are joining our union siblings at @afscme3299.bsky.social and @uptecwa.bsky.social for a sympathy strike on Nov. 17 & 18.

We stand united against UC's attempts to cut corners and deprive our coworkers of fair contracts. If you take on one of us, you take on all of us!

Campus clinical social workers (CSWs) at @UCSF lead harm‑reduction and diversion efforts that keep people alive and out of crisis—yet UC's unfair treatment of them has produced a crisis of retention that undermines care. Now, they're #StrikeReady!

Hey @UCSF, have you heard? Audiologists are #StrikeReady!

Psych and neurosurgery clinical research coordinators from @UCSF are ready to #strike!

Approximately 70% of physician decisions are based on work done by clinical lab scientists like these ones who work in hematology at UCSF—and 100% of these people are ready to #strike if they have to.